Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-06
CHAPTER MI
The New ReYue

Keep of the Grass" the very success.
ful revue, had come to an end. The
newspapers bewailed the fact that Miss
Ncr'. ssor the popular LEADING lady
some considerable time,
She was leaving for the States in a
lew days to fulfill long engagement,
and this was the main reason for the
chanee OF program. But the new revue,
Look Out There !" was being advertised
Freely. with Miss Grace Blythedale in
The leading part.
4 see they amt advertising your
name, sunny" Bert Jackson said
sunny looked up.
), "nat are you grousIng about now?"
she said. advertising my name
What ncxt?"
Didn't they ought to?" he said.
amt you playing second lead?"
sunny nodded
8.rouole you are. They amt advertising
my name yet, but you wait a bit, then
'souIl see sunny pucrow' on every
noo,m'rF nOO, boarding in London and it
won't be long neither" She laughed,
.no"'ng her white, even teeth. Some
,h Inc or other the people of London'll DO
oUout ted up with Sunny Ducrow."
nun Watt and see" Bert said
To,y ! 'lought, as you was playing
Ia Bit" '"s'' W "u'ef''se you
Sunny said 'ou "o'fS'
.r second Lead" said Mrs Melkin,
inat 'uSt H. Second lead and going
get hve pounds every week, and ere
|raa ere we stay in these miserable lodg-
ss' bst' ~ not Mt for a girl like Sunny, they
They amt so dusty" SUNNY said
ha,t ye seen worse. Anyhow. they're a bit
.%' .T We been used TO, old dear"
r, ~ me old days." Mrs. Melkin said
kTinIen .W7s y 'aDDy VIE, | 'ad n porIor
ISn snrr klddym'nster CARPET and"
kba, b"y ny, made p sign TO Bert She knew
NJ" doNr was coming, and she slid toward
wen ave to be moving for re-
|so sai,oH. ,ono, bert'' she said. Come on,
gS .stoyrs yt4rs end TO the other their leo
m"'uhg on little square bits Of lone.
H. r6'1, 80 as not to mark the carpet. and
Bnt VuSd sn table in the middle-''
Poo r"Iny oII,y and Bert had escaped
10 KIM - O!" ,,,i uear - Sunny said "She
n" mat mats where she and me is differ
\ IT, ,i,.d pert She lives In the past. and me-
Too rg ,s, IN lhe future. See? II oin't viii
h n, VIZ VIZ, ! been or what 7 am H. ,whn, t
20 TbE TbaEt,a, 10 nc and. what I'm going to
thouldors snld ""rt He hunched his
tew tbIng l gotter sing a song In this
,noma, well vou 90 on wisbrne s "u ionr
'Got yonr ana I'm I'm come true" sunny said
ne nodded gloomily.
ru9,osso sot nhe words" he said "ana tho
IAN roo y r'rht 7 s'noso Snr thor, r 'iae as
Dver ,est H. nio Old Posetti made me trv II
paused, n"W>Ent, and he laughed: Bert
> he said IESr rIoarr,T,te,eo see chap laugh like
rot rS 'orn run down IS ugly mug wbor ~ me
by' my.o,II "m" ! tho"ght ia trv i II ovor Wnen
tSrao'Sy "'ySet in my room, I dId@l" d Ma n[t
~ "fTr.a:' Sunny asked
Words eb tbo, ,"e words all right. rotten
lnd roses T; ere; too-all about flowers
be II was raII,her come up and arsted
af when I told i'm I way way p,Tetending,
pauscd' '"e with the strap!' Bert m
Nm U, uon't think much Of that sorr ,.
Ahon. ,In "'i,e. Az mats a good song, now
foes dlvIrN"" Nou know the cban N =,
'ea and dvinaa aUout for treasures in the
he sort OF o. 'tS ~, lonely IN the end. That's
nd bmeIl,, about being 'apnv and no, a
'aasedI' dI''"s gay and rubbish i}" !" fofis Iis
,e aSGnS 1SS'nST lssImmoa la in all RI, he did ~
It the p'ckIoss S'sn1,I Srn, wish was wa o bacr
Pert snIffed'. If. IN your cart" Sunny said.
's .sS HI' ana 'S" smsI rSs!,sssue Of billing vinegar"
t"'' uayi there ain't nothink ,IEe e
'Thero n,.,, 49,
The Sean amt" Sunny raId docIded,v
yhlcb sep eeep e loom and wretcbadTnIa'SS tbTI'S, SS
who'll 'VtgIRed taRsSd to be Berts character had
biect mIasolhe lhe picture OF intense nnI
Ms lips. s"'SeFN Never smile came pn "1n on
lied b%I,h"r girls asked SUNNI vno,
ONE Ino,m,Was he in love, or had he
roubleYS disease, or what was @ bis M
,unny saisS nfsS being like that, that's ALL"
appy SnIa nio. He ain't never thorouebiv
hats Bertt1ps, Bt1s hes utterly mis'rabie
y "''' sight It seemed to sunny that
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