Evening star., 1921-09-11
SUBBING IN FOR GLORIA :

RI lust think!" says Barry Platt
ing ng',s''" to. says l. +" try.
= And I was. But I couldn't
quite work up the rosy pink thoughts
that were going on under Barry
slick light hair and registering In
the flickery smile he wore. They
even beamed from his blue eyes.
..The rehearsaIs have begun he
adds. "Ames Hunt thought I'd bet
ter not come down at first. They
lust read their lines to start with
But by tomorrow they ought to know
'em fairly we'll. and I'm to be there
You, too.. Trilby May. You must
come along"
."Me?" says I. I'D be great help.
wouldn't I?'
'Rut your the one who got 1t put
on" insists Barry. Besides. want
you to hear how it sounds and tel
me how you think it's going. Ano
anyway, you're the only one VINO
really knows what this means to me-
At which I looks across at lnez 70
see If this gets her at all green IN
the eyes. 1t doesn't. In fact. sne IS
wrapped in that after-dinner CAIN
quake would disturb. But she IS
dimly conscious that something I'M
portant Is being discussed.
'They gonna play that piece you
read?" she asks. ION the stage!
Barry mods enthusiastic. The
says he.
"Huh!" says Inez. Then she yawns.
heaves herself up from the easy chair:
and drifts into the next room TO Wlho
the music machine and put on ne"
jazz record. -
ITS her way of expressing how
thrilled she is" I explains. "She has
such an emotional nature
But Barry is soaring too high TO be
affected by little things ike that- He .,e
goes on. .sWho do you suppose they've
engaged to play the Flapper?'
"Billy Burke?" is my guess.
mo joshing." says Barrie Listen:
Ames Hunt has found the real thlns-
Gloria Whitney"
Sounds genuine" says I. "but I'm
afraid 1 don't locate Gloria Has she
been in the movies, or what?
+ u \
DAIRY looks shocked. shes never
II been anywhere before" says he.
except at Newport and Monte Carlo
and Palm Beach and places like that
Her mother Is Mrs. Stuyvesant Breese
whitney-the Mrs Whitney-and an
older sister is the Countess de Grau.
OF course. Gloria has been in amateur
things-school plays, pageants char
ity shows and so on. They say she's
clever. too. No one but Ames Hunt.
though. would have had the nerve
TO ask her to go on as profess
sional Trust him. He goes after
what he wants. For this fiapper
part he told me, we must have the
real, right thing. as Henry James
put 1T. I mean to get one. too And
next day he wires Gloria Whitney.
She left Newport house party to come
on and sign up. How about that?'
got as excited over the news as
] could without turning handspring,
and listened to other intimate details
about the production with almost
while I had gone out and placed the
piece for Barry. I'd pulled it off more
or less by accident. and what still
had to learn about the stage was a
heap. Especially drama as it is done
south of Jefferson Market. If you
must know. too. 1t was nearly all
new to Barry boy; but he was pass
ing it on to me as though it was
something he had inhaled with his
first cigarette.
Hunt has sent for o. P. Biggs to
do the King" goes on Barry. did
some good work In stock last season
at the Hollis Street. Boston, but Of
course he'll jump at q chance to get
to New York. Then for the Prince
We have one of Hunts discoveries-a
chap by the name of Scnerzon-Rus.
sian. I believe. I've gorgotten just
where Ames dug him up. but he has
a speaking voice like Tyrone Pow