The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-08

'fYou shall stay with me at my apart
ment," said Marie. 'tI'll take care Of you,
my dear"
So little Anna stayed with her new
friend and thus it came about that there
lowered at last the final fatal circun-
stance which sends every sad eyed daugh-
ter of Broadway upon her tragic career.
The good friend was an evil friend in dis
guise. And when the little model Weakened
the next day she gave her counsel Of her
wickedness These women talk with a
verbiage which is ineligible enough in
the quarters where they live, though the
rest of the world might be puzzled. She
did for Anna what Satan in the Bible
did when he tempted his Lord. She led
the child up on the high mountain Of the
fripperies dear to the foolish wonlan's
heart, and she showed her that beautiful
world, and promised her it, for price.
The actual words she said were to the
point.
"a pretty girl like you needn't work
so hard for only twenty-five dollars a
week. You should have friend child.
Don't you want me to introduce you to
some nice, rich men?"
Anna keenan, hesitated. So must all
youth and innocence hesitate before tax
ing the definite, irrevocable step. While
she hesitated her new friend advised the
child to pretty up" Anna should bob her
hair-everybody was bobbing the hair,
who had any pretense to style, and
q real professional hair artist should
AZ ar nm Auno chn.,ld hloanL lo~ Lo;,.
moreover. Men like blondes. They were
more flashy-they struck the eye quicker
Yes, she should certainly bleach her hair.
And then the friend offered to do what
is called in her parlance stake" the girl
to the changes she had suggested. That
meant she. would pay the fees Of the
! beauty specialist. 4a Is s'zs'e
So Anna emerged from the beauty par
lor with all the charms and artifcialities Of
the vamps and gold-diggers Of the vile
night life of Broadway.
"And, Anna, well change your name
to prettier one-Dorothy King sounds
a lot nicer"
Why such women as she wish to raise
up youthful competitors against them
selves, nobody knows. But history and
literature are both full of just such ex-
amples Of vicious friendship" as that
which the girl who now changed her name
to Dorothy King accepted from her coun-
sellor, Marie. Then followed a round of
cabarets at which Marie, the woman
versed in her sorry lore, taught her young
disciple. And the weeks went by and that
young disciple passed out of her novitiate.
They tell sordid stories on Broadway
of how the sudden friendship of these
two came to as sudden an end. Again
each was not quite herself, and the teacher
was now. grown contemptuOus, till she
boasted of her powers as a queen of the
White Light region. Whereat the girl
who little before had slipped her small
drink like medicine, reached out in sud-
den anger, and tore off the false curls of
her friend.
"a wig" said she, "false-and you
laugh at me! Marie, I'll have a mono
gram upon my limousine when you are
counting your pennieS!
Perhaps it is part of the violent psychol-
ogy of Broadway that the woman who has
learned to assert herself succeeds
At any rate as all her friends will tell
you, the night that the little newcomer
defed her older friend, she became a
parsonage on Broadway. And she was
taken up by Jack Lannigan who was the
proprietor of several well known caba-
rets. In fact, he became her "friend."
Now there's a studied plan of pro-
cedure for women who haunt these places,
as there is plan for school teacher or
a man who follows the sea. The girl to
succeed on Broadway must have chance
of meeting men and of meeting the right
kind. And the cabaret is the place, as
Jack Lannigan, "friend" to Dorothy King,
was quick to explain to her.
every millionaire in the world at some
time comes to New York" he pointed out,
land when they come here they always
60 to the cabarets. They've heard of
them, back home, if they've heard of
nothing else. l can't pay you much as a
hostess but the chances are worth more
than salary"
Dorothy King had finally graduated into
the niche which every girl of her type
yearns for. She had a rightful place
where she belonged on Broadway, and she
was learning in the excellent school of ex-
perience how to size up men. Now they
have their names for the commerce they
traffic in. And they have their types.
Dorothy quickly learned how to separate
the man who was good for dinner and
a hundred and a gOod-by" from the man
who might be good for great deal more
To any White Lights beauty one hundred
dollars as fee for an evenings company
is a regular enough contribution, and q
contribution hopefully expected.