Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-24
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the way some Of them spoke TO Co
rhine. Catsl
She slipped out Of the theater
after they got back from dinner and
went 70 a flower shop. There she
ordered a dozen American beauty
roses sent to the theater TO Miss
Corinne Mallory. She pulled a large
square envolpe from her bag and
f. instructed them TO put it with the
flowers and deliver them about
o'clock at the theater.
Ballard Riley wouldn't have missed
the opening Of Janet's show for any
thing. Even IL he did scold. off and
on, about il, and keep reminding her
that she was wasting her talent. He
sat in the first row, but hadn't told
her that he would be there. To her
inquiries he bad only said ne would
try-but a doctors time was very un-
certain. he had bought his ticket
the day they were placed on sale.
There was a little ache Of uncer-
tainty in Janet's heart, as she sat
putting her makeup on for the first
time. Oh, how she wanted him to
be there. She wanted him TO sit
where she could see him. II would
help her do her number. She would
do it for him alone. But suddenly
her face famed.
embarrassing. She had forgotten
number was next 10 nothing, and in
two numbers she was draped in q
scarf. Would she think about that
when she got on the stage?
She set her lips and made up her
mind that such thoughts were fool.
ish. Why, IL was on the stage! No
one thought anything about il. How
foolish she was. Especially TO worry
about a broad-minded mar like Bal.
lard Riley and what he would think
There we're four other girls in the
dressing room. All dancers who had
speciality bits. They jsbbered among
themselves. but she did not seem "a
be included. Once she had seer one
Of them look in her direction and
say something about "only an ana.
teur.n She wondered IL they meant
her. And if there was anything par.
ticuiarly terrible about being a be.
ginner.
The girl who said IL was d big
tall girl, with red hair. The kind OF
hair that comes out OF a beauty par.
Tor. Her face was rather hardened
and Janet noticed she had mean eyes
Her thought was that she wouldn't
like to trust her very far. She
looked as though she might be a ter
rible cat. Her name was Flodin.
Deslys. Janet was sure she mad,
the Flodine up herself and copied IN,
Deslys.
Janet struggled with her makeup
and felt she was making a pretty bat
mess Of it. Corinne, in her dressirt
room, suddenly thought Of her, anC
wondered If she would know how 1,
make up. She hurried with her ow,
and climbed the three flights o.
stairs down to where Janet wa
cooped. She greeted her with oper
arms.
boy, you're a knockout in the OLE
war paint! You sure know how {,
daub yourself"
Corinne surveyed Janet with he,
hands on her hips and shook he,
head:
"You look like a circus. But, hav,
courage. IL took me forty years {,
learn how. You'll get there"
She stuck her hand in the colo
cream and removed Janet's effor
with a towel. Then she showed he,
how u should be done. Janet wa
surprised when she saw how big anc
starry her eyes looked with the bead
on them. And the red in her cheek,
brought her out, too, and made he,
look ravishingly beautiful.
She surveyed herself carefully anc
exclaimed, admiringly:
What a lot Of good n little make.
up can do"
Flodine Deslys, watching the per,
iormance IN her mirror, smiled I
nasty grin and turned 10 the cir
beside her. -
Some people T certainly easily
encouraged, aren't they?"
ITO BE CONTINUED