The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-12-31

same county with Sabina II gN.
disintereHted judges were to 5@
rule, that It looked like y asEW "A 3
walkaway for Katey md IFM MN fs
Mike. Mike was the SEQ EzszAM M
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retary OF the Garment
Workers local and. Katey H
was peroxide blonde OF M
the sort that would cause BMR2 M
most Of the> bovine hearts
In such n district 20 ham 81
They had come down u
w!th delegation number
ing fully third OF the thea
tres capacity. and their ad-
herents would "stick"-the harder the opposition
and the more shamelessly unfair the fght--the
harder
Ii 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
foQtllghts, then dramatically holding the Ieashed
hands of his audience. he suddenly phot his right
palm outward and finger tips upward. over the
heads Of Katey and Mike The house shook with
the simultaneous contact of perhaps a thousand
hard, husky hands From every section came
whistles and vows. Then he raised his left over
the heads OF Sahina and Tony. II began more
SLOWLY, and there wasn't the concentrated explo-
sion But 1t lived, grew swelled until II was a de-
cent showing. enough to demand a recount Again
the hand went up over Ketey apd Mike; again
mat Saccato voluminous mob applause. seemingly
more hefty than even in the first instance.
And something happened-something psyoholoE-
ical. too deeply so to have been planned. Emo
tional, quiclttempered Sabna, standing there and
hearing that convincing, decisive hammerinE for
her rivals bit her lips, Iabbed her finger nails into
her palms, but 1t was no use-the temperament of
the Polish girl sizsled in her veins and she began
to sob and weep.
The applause stopped--dead The manager
raised his hand Sabina and Tony With
cannonadiIfg that ratified the wall every hand that
wasn't STEPPED In the sin Of having sworn to put
over Ka'eY and Mike went at IT, Il was riot A
Jumped feet
A thousand feet stamped Sabina now carried
away by the~tumut even more than She was by
the danger shook more Historically, and the bel.
lowing and the batterng rose in proportion KAtey
ana Mike looked injured and helpless Bu there
was nothing to it-Sabina 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 sabna was a notable
IN that community, The result OF this result was
that the manager OF the theatre offered her weeks
engagement at fabulous mpensation-S4O-and
she accepted She had to quit the factory for thar
her mother shook her head over that, and the idea
OF her daughter appearing as a professional on a
s1ase was new and rather terrifying. but the sac
was chncher. Sablna rehearsed new stems with
Iony, who also got S40 and who temporarilv "IsId
on from MS regular Job a bootegger's deliyerar
VI cohuaoand, and In due time they Opened"
The house unusually crowded, and the tprr
wshn IKE mad Business remained big all week
ana the team" held over The vaudevrs
aeu1ts @a1 ana shaTpshooters uptown heard OF this
ma, and while they were skeptical over "neign
boFhood discoveries" and headlning "IocaJs " tbav
sheaked down for look anyway And thew rayad
mere was beauty, a natural dancing Rrttst
rare personality and readv.made act Reyora
tne fortnight was past Sabina had been run ragged
WIN ouers, or these she accepted one al a srrn
each week mat WAS low for vaudeville salaries bpt
10 ner was beyond the seventh heaven OF drasrs
OF nopes. Tony. OF course, went along
within a month the girl was seen In a het,ar
mouse and within three months she had nm &C.,
Hom musical show-but alone
Now came the rub
iony, who had waited himself into the aootI,vb+
through scratch, not only ga.i@sls4 ths, =.
mad made Sabina- and learned her ali aha
Knew but that she belonged to him Ha rad
Shsnged HIS name to Anthony PotrowsLv ana
Saolna mad become Elsye GOelet with the first
move out OF the submerged area and Tony had
begun to put on airs and lord II about I'm front NJ
the theatre and tell his old eroues colossal i,es
about the letters he got from women and tba
pathetic devotion OF Sabina TO him
In truth, he was as insanely Infatuated xy,.h
Sabina as he naturally might have become dancing
IN the arms or so intoxicating creature sharing
win her the dizzy triumphs that had lifted them
out OF the slime and into the glory,
He had at first announced TO her that thew
would be married, and when Sabina had hooked
asHance, he had changed his tone slightly to one
OF command When she had finished telling him
Just what kind OF a fresh boZo he was and iust
where he got off at, he drew back his fist Tony
had mighty fist He could have terrorlzed almost
any one with II, and he was OF the nature that
would use 1t for a bluff and follow through with
the Wallop' But Sabina hadn't been raised where