Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-08-12
The Handsome HOOfer

Mrs. Ravens apartment In the Avenue
Gabriel, but a crowd of her friends mac
come over from London, among them 1.
Winston Brumbey, n 1t Was that young
gentleman who arranged so many OF the
parties in which Eddie was not
Tit result was that he found nlmseil
seeing Daphne less often and less inti-
| mately.
In mid-July they had all decided to fit
to Deauville, whence they were TO go on
to Biarritz for August, but at the last
moment a cable arrived from Peter Poole
commanding Daphne and Mrs. Haven TO
join him without delay in London.
ut will only be for a few days"
Daphne assured Eddie. You go on to
Deauville and we'll hop over there just as
soon as we can shake father"
So alone Eddie 1ourneyed to Deauville
He had always heard OF 1t as the smart
watering place of Europe. but he found
it disappointingly quiet because the sea
son" was not yet Oh. There was some
half-hearted gambling, and some even
more half hearted dancing in a casino
that looked as If it had been built in
Hollywood, and the ocean was SO cold
that nobody bathed save a few ~lifeguards
in red shirts and fierce mustachios.
For three days Eddie was very lonely
in Deauville. On the fourth day came a
green cablegram which read:
LEAVING FOR SCOTLAND WITH
THE OLD MAN. AWFULLY SORRY.
LOVE. Daphne.
So he returned, somewhat disheartened
to Paris, where a letter from Camilla
Haven awaited him. 1t was a very friend
ly letter, intended, doubtless. to a the
edge of his disappointment, and in 1T
she described the place in the High
lands Of Scotland that Peter Poole had
| lon Cnd fAr AIrn.fGfs tht, opatnnf cactln
containing more ghosts than bathrooms,
but completely stocked with game and
| gillies, haggis and Scotch monograph
records. And" she wrote. there is an
outrageous Scottish bagpiper, imported
from America, where, I understand, all
the bagpipers are playing vaudeville en-
gagements."
Thus Eddie's gay summer abroad came
to an abrupt end. Paris was hot, and
rapidly being overrun with Americans in
knickerbockers and straw hats-and Ed
die was intolerably lonely. Nevertheless,
he forvave Daphne. After all, it was not
her fault that her father insisted on car
rying her of to Scotland. So there was
nothing for him to do but sail for home,
and he took passage on the first boat.
August in New York. Heat and lone
illness. Eddie Keedick was beginning to
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winter before. and it was not an alto
gether pleasant awakening. The city ap-
peared deserted these hot nights. Even
the electric signs over Broadway seemed
glazing reminders of the temperature,
n he wandered about, alone and dis
consulate. There vas nobody in town
Nobody, that Is, but q few million swell
tering souls. The people of Eddie Keed-
ick's world were all away. And yet he
found himself wondering what his world
really was, n in thinking 1t over, dis
covered that he fell somewhere between
the two worlds of Park avenue and
Broadway. Both spent their summers or
Long Island; Park avenue sojourned in
Southampton and Broadway at Great
Neck. But Eddie found himself cut of
from both. During the past winter, In
devoting himself to Daphne, he had for
saken all his old friends n the pals OF
vaudeville days. Now he a nobody
left. He had written two letters to
Daphne, but no reply had come. Still
she had often told him she never wrote
to any one.
1t was not unusual that his thoug.
at this time turned to other summers
when he had been g%loriously happy In
the vaudeville colony at 'Sconset. May
Mckay and her mother always spent
July and August there.
One morning he picked up a trade
PoPSi oAo iCdAACO Will dludZEIIl6uL Una
May Mckay had been engaged by Rig
burg for his new revue, Fright You
Arel" Rigburg was Billingston's great
rival; each season, their productions
waged a bitter warfare of competition
So May Mckay was leaving vaudeville
she, too, was to have her chance on
Broadway.
Billingston's new show, who Knows?'
opened out of town early in September
But not until the New York opening
two weeks later did the blow fall; for
VINO Knows?" was disclosed to be a
dark failure. who Knows?" wrote one
critic. II do. It's terriblel"
The truth was, Billingston had at
tempted to repeat his success Of the pre-
vious season, Hoo Hool" He had en-
gagged the same librettists, the same COM
poser, the same star, the same comedian
and Eddie Keedick. But the results
were not the same. The librettists re-
mashed all their old situations; the COM
poser re-wrote all his old tunes: the star
was merely her old sweet self; the come
dian put forth his sid gags and falls
and Eddie Keedick performed his same
dances that had been sensational the sea-
son before. The frst-nighters were
frankly bored.
Daphne had returned from Europe
while Eddie was out of town with the
tryout. He had received no word from
her, but he read In the papers that she
was home. OF course, he argued to him.
self, she would be too busy to write Just
now, but surely she would turn up at
the opening in New York.
However, on the opening night she
tailed to come back stage after the per-
Torrance, when 1t was the custom for
friends and even acquaintance to gath
er In the actors dressing rooms and ex-
change compliments for alleged Scotch
whiskey. Daphne did not come back
AS a matter fact, most Of the people who
had been out front at that disastrous
hrst night discreetly crept away. Oddly
enough, the only person who came back
to see Eddie was the plump little saxo-
phone man who had played In the Gu
farasol orchestra the season before.
How was it?" Eddie asked him.
The little man held his nose.
A bad as that?"
i give 1t two weeks. An say, didja
hear the other bad news? They hung q
paddock on the Parasol las night"
The prohibition officers had closed the
Club Parasol. That meant the shatter-
Ing OF Eddie's hopes that he would be
engaged to dance there again this season
The next morning Caesar Blagwyn, the
critic, who had last veal 80 DANGEROUSLY
trumpeted praise OF Eddie and his dane
ing, wrote a devastating review of "Whc
knows?" In which he remarked that al
was possible to see even that handsome
hoofer. Mr.. Eddie Keedick, once toe
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