Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-11-30
BY WALTER ID. HICKMAN.


Pam is just like other girls.
How do you know? You ask.
Tell you all about it.
The other evening 1 elected to have
a little chat for publication with Miss
PAMELA Bradford, the dancer, with THE
Right Girl" which today Is in its final
two performances for an EIks' benefit at
Englishs.
Pam made the hour at O'Clock.
Promptly on the dot l asked the
telephone operator at the switchboard for
the Lincoln Hotel to tell Miss Pam
that I was waiting for her down stairs.
iii be down in the lobby in five
minutes she said.
See, she is just like other girls. Don't
you remember when calling" on your
best girl on date night" that she
usually said, an be down in a minute"
You know. now I ask you, you know
what a minute is in a girls life.
Slightly after the five minute dead line,
Pam fioated out of the elevator.
She didn't ask me pardon for being
late. She is original, very original, you
know.
Il was gallOping over the stage prac-
ticing a toe dance this afternoon and 1
scraped part of the skin off of toe
she said. Il was putting on new skin.
That's the reason l was late
Not being a toe dancer myself, but
knowing what a tack has done for me,
I sympathized with Pam.
You're going to have dinner with me
tonight" she said as If everything was
settled. and 1 am going to pay the
bill. You are my guest for a while any
way. No use trying to exPlain-we eat.
I am starved to death. Now don't grab
the check, cause 1t is mine
started TO say something in the
negative.
You know as we'll as ! do that a meal
isn't going to buy any sweet words in
print from you" she said. II want hon
est reviews as well as you do. Dinner
we are going to have"
She moved toward the DINING room.
1 followed in a troubled state of mind.
It was q new idea for me to be carted
off to dinner with the feminine part Of
the party doing the honors.
"a woman has a few rights" she
contended and I decided right then and
there to check me hat and coat. And in
went into dinner.
When the orders were placed, she said ::
"I am starved Eating doesn't ruin
art. On the stage one has to be care
full Of eating, but why let a perfectly
good steak interfere with art? No rea-
son at all
As She toyed with her SOUP spoon she
gasped, Green olives. How l love
them"
And then like a girl in the home OF her
parents she "speared" an olive.
She then told me Of her little two years
on the stage. She started in the chorus
until today her picture adOrns the front
az the theater where The Right Girl
Is showing.
cit means hard work to succeed on the
stage" she said. II was brought up IN
n Quaker community. l was permitted to
learn toe dancing. Not for stage APP
pearance. Those days passed. Hard
work. And here l am"
She was q member Of the Boston
eomcany Of Take 1t From Me" and was
with Honey Dew" Now Pam IS COM
ing into her own. She is not satisfied,
not contented but dreaming of the time
when she can do more important things.
She has been trained in the art or
classical dancing and she believes that
such dancing has a place on the musical
comedy stage. She IS right. You agree
with her when you see her on her toes
come gliding in during the last few
minutes of The Right Girl clad in a
ballet costume.
She spoke Of PavlOwa and how she en-
joyed seeing the great dancer recently In
New York She told me Of some new
pretty frocks she has ordered for The
Right Girl
Pam is one Of those natural people
of the stage who refuses TO talk Dos
tonian" or put on high class manners.
She is real-reaIly real, just like any
other girl
You don't have to be prima donna Of
the parlor to be sweet and unaffected,
YOU can be on the stage and be just IS
sweet and real.
That's Pam.
She even dreamed of her cottage IN
New Jersey by the side Of the Atlantic,
where she spends her summers and where
she builds air castles, only to tear them
down and longs to do something worth
while during the following season on the
stage.
The finger bowls appeared.
They were removed.
The check for the dinner appeared with
that unconcerned manner by which a
carefully trained waiter slips you the
glad news.
little hand shot out and covered the
check.