Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-11
! SUNNY DUCROW
nv HENRY ST. JOHN COOPER

down, my dear j" II, IL, took her hand and md
patted It. Had q row with old Rost.
heimer. ain't your" ...'.. -,
INC, aS ! sln't" she said.
He had q row with me. I amt hav-
You've got a contract with Hem
m'EnEsrsyT EYs.'s
Three years. isn't itF'
Vel. what are A.. you going to do about
,.,G mot ~ me sor,, II aint got time =, Sunny
with no law. I want to get back on the
stage and get a move on 10
You're wise - he said. you'd very
likely win, but It 'ud cost you something
being an artistic who went to the courts,
ana managers 'ud fight shy Of you How
about the provinces?'
sunny shook her head. r ,....
mot mo! Londons good enough for
me-, she said. I'm staying in Lon
nses @ yon wn'a sst yGo fUrse sst out into the
quite right /" he said. He sat back
IN his chair and thought deeply. ....
Barstowe'g taking off "All Fares
Please" In three or four weeks; he's
l Hl0eVG.
fancy he's engaged the artistes, but ri
see him today. Got your press notices2'
80 sunny nodded; she produced them
She had brought a little parcel Of them.
Shos'ng on Hemmingway's advice, she
agency, so she had all her press notices
pasted into q book,
Besides the notices, there were half
q dozen photographs by birmingham.
"a AN may, S.i now 2. @ did you get Hurlinsham
Just told him wanted to be took
and he took me all right. He pays
pretty we'll. ! shan't starvc so long as /
CO. -onrn y him'' q SUNNI Wnrdsr SAID. ID -, u.,,
said. I've known actresses in good
positions, mind you. almost 20 down ON
their knees and ask him to talSo them.
WSSy, vWhSsy offSr ana him any price but he won't.
ANY time; It's the last night to-
night !" Sunny said.
| Come In this afternoon. I'll very likely
have something to tell you'll hope 80 !
sSsI %s!s s00d'0y' my dear for the pres
,o,H S,gHssstNwe s,,nNy. he's he's the Realm man. isn't
yes; the biggest man in London.
Rostheimer don't have. to finance him. /"
him ArstY" Sunny asked.
Moss laughed. O.
You couldn't do it in a hundred
years y he said; NO one ever. goes to
with him all right, because I used TO
| 60 to school with him. Don't you think
Of It, my dear. You'll have to pass
seven secretaries and about ten under
secretaries and a regiment of commits
| sionaires and clerks and other folk be-
fore you get as far as Curtiss's office.
Curtiss is Barstowe's private secretary.
and no one get beyond him."
| Bet you do!' Sunny said She
to twelve. What time are you meeting
him at the clubP"
| "I'll see him before you do" Sunny
Moss laughed. he ohuckled.
MY dear, you are very clever. but
I'll bet you q dozen pairs Of gloves to
| O brass farthing you .'Jnt see him !"
II take it--that bet, l mean" Sunny
said. She went out, she hailed a taxi
49,. Realm" .st, - she said. You know that
Five minutes later the cab dropped her
outside the Realm.
She was going to see Barstowe some:
how. She was on her mettle. Moss had
she could. 1t would have been easier for
her II she had known precisely where
| Barstow's office was. but she did not
know. She would have to chance her
luck.
Sunny went to tho stage-door There
was a large sized commissionatre there
she nodded to him sweetly. wished him
good-morning, and before he could say 2
word she had pushed open the door ano
gone in.
She was behind the scenes. 1t was
less strange to her now than II had been
when she had first entered H. hemmidhs, sn,nd :
Good morning" she said Where
ID I'm IN his Office, expect, MISS the man
"oh, yes. Let me see. I forget which
""ITl show YOU" the man said politely
.~You'll have TO pass through the genera
offioe first Mr.. Curtiss's office Is BEYOND
'nai aAnd beyond that Is Mr. Barstowe's
office. isn't itT' Sunny asked.
He nodded.
That was all Sunny wanted to KNOW
The man left her outside the door OF Int
large suite of offices from when ,asss nar
Herstowe's "Reaims" existed in ever,
town Of any size throughout tho Soan.
try. He was the accepted King OF ths
musIc-hall world. He was the man VINO
had lifted the halls and had placed tnem
on a level with the legitimate stage
Time was not SO many years ago ,,e wnef
legitimate actors and actresses iooke'
down on the artistes OF the hails.
was different now. thanks TO barstoWe
Some of the greatest living actors ane
actresses were not above accepting
contract from him to appear at one o.
another Of his Realms" He was Ger
tainly a great man. a great power. De
side whom Hemingway was an up
! start, n nobody, mere mushroom
But, like all great men. his time wal
worth gold, and he was dif1cuit 70 ap
like Barstowe's II he sees every Jacl
and jill who wants to waste his time
Sunny realized all this. but she was go
ing to see Barstowe.
She opened the door and entered th'
outer Office. There was commission
aire at the door. He stepped forward
'Thanks p Sunny said pleasantly
"oh, it's all right. thanks" She passed
him by; clerk rose and came TOWARD
her: NJ o...,. ,,,, ,.a v,,,
me for being late" she said' smiling a
him.
appointment with himT'
goodness - she said. Didn't 70,
know--Im Sunny Ducrowr She smiled
broadly.
"In tell Mr.. Curtiss that you are here
Miss Ducrow," the young man said.
whats the use of telling him wha
,, he'll be able TO see with his own eyes? !?
, she said, 'T'll tell him myself!'
B She slipped past tho clerk and mad
) for a large, solid-looking, mahogan,
door She opened II and went In.
? It was a large room, luxurtously fur
r nished. There was a thick and yalu
able carpet on the floor. The walls @
: the room were decorated In two shade
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