The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-12-31

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They had come down q
with q delegation number q
ing fully third of the thea
res capacity. and their ad-
herents would "stick'-the harder the opposition
and the shanlelessly unfair the fght-tle
harder.
1t took close Judging in spots but at last the
contest narrowed down to the two couples. The
manager set them before him at the edge of the
footIShts, then dramatically holding the isashed
hands Of his audience, he suddenly ehot his right,
palm outward and finger tips upward, the
heads Of Eatey and Mike. The house shook with
the simultaneous contact Of perhaps thousand
hard. husky hands. From every section csne
whistles and vows. Then he raised his LET" over
the heads of Sabna and Tony. 1t began more
slowly, and there wasn't the concentrated expio-
sion. But II lived, grew, swelled until it de-
the hand went up over Katey and Mike; again
that Staccato. yoluninous mob applause seemingly
more hefty than even in the first instance
And something happened-something psycholog
zeal, too deeply so to have been planned Emo.
tional, cuick-tempered Sabina. standing there and
hearing that convincing, decisive hammeTing for
her rivals bit her lips, jabbed her finger nails into
her palms but it was no use-the temperament OF
the Polish girl sizzed IN her veins and she began
to sob and weep.
The applause stopped-dead The manager
raised his hand over Sabina and Tony. With q
Cannonadng that ratified the walls every hand that
wasn't stepped i'll the sin OF having sworn TO put
over Katey and Mike, went At it. 1t a riot. 4
hundred men Jumped to their feet and screamed
thousand feet stamped. Sabina, carried
away by the tunlult even more than she was by
the danger, shook more hystericay, aud the bel
and Mike looked injured and helpless But there
was notbtDg TO ft--Eabina and Tony had won so
Overwhelmingly that all debate quashed. And
they took the prize amid thunder that would have
embarrassed emperor.
The direct result was that Sabina notable
in that community. The result Of this result was
that the manager Of the theatre offered her weeks
engagement at fabulous compensation-$40-an
she accepted She had to quit the factory for that.
Her mother shook her head over that, and the idea
of her daughter appearing a professional
stage was new and rather terrifying but the $40
was a CinCher. Sabina rehearsed new steps with
Tony who also got $40. and who temporarily laid
on from his regular job bootlegger's deiiyerer
OF contraband, and in due time they Opened
The house was unusually crowded. and the turn
went like mad. Business remained big ali week
and the team held over. The vaudeville
agents aud sharDshooters uptown heard OF this
lind" and while they were skepticaf over neigh
bOrhOod discoveries" and headiininy "l0cals,' they
sncaked down for look anyway. And they raved
here beauty, natural dancing artist, a
rare personality" and a readymade act" Before
the fortnight was pas Sabina had been run ragged
WIN ONerS. vi these she accepted one at SUM
each week that low for vaudeville salaries, but
to her beyond the seventh heaven OF dreams
hopes Tony, Of course went along
Within month tho girl in better
house and within three months she had offer
from musical show-but alone,
Nov came the rub.
Tony, who had waited himself into the spotlight
through scratch, not only satisfied that he
had made" Sabina, and learned her all she
knew" but that she belonged to him lie had
changed his to Anthony Piotrowsky and
Sabina had become Elsye Goelet with the first
move out Of the submerged area, and Tony had
begun to put on airs and lord 1t about in front of
the theatre and tell his old cronies colossal lies
about the letters he got from women and the
pathetic devotion of Sabina to him
In truth, he insanely infatuated With
Sabina as he naturally might have become, dancing
in the arms of Intoxicating creature, sharing
with her the dizzy tTumphs that had lifted them
out of the slime and into the glory.
He had at first announced 10 her that they
would be married. and, when Sabina had looked
askance, he had changed his tone slightly to one
Of command. When she had finished telling him
Just what kind of q fresh boZo he and Just
where he got off at. he drew back his fist Tony
had mighty fist. He could have terrOriZed almost
ANY with IL. and he OF the nature that
would use it for a bluff and follow through with
the walop. But Sabina hadn't been raised where
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