Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-27
DANCING JUDITH
WI, = So6ypiSuT $50 ~ SuEISGA HOUSE ~
N ard HEATH HOSkEN

about me. I'm sailing for Sweden
next week. ! shall be away all the
rest Of the summer. I'm planning
to live abroad q great deal"
Il shall follow you"
well, I don't advise you to-
Il shan't be able to help myself,
Judy!"
Her name came groaningly from
his lips. It was an appeal. Even
now he could not understand; but
miSsal and he had TO 90.
She followed him 70 the door and
watched him 60 along the corridor.
His great bulk hung forward; ne
shambled, bowed at the shoulders.
She thought he looked like q noun
tain about TO tumble down. She
was not quite sure that there was
not a scrap Of pity for him In her
heart.
She went back to the couch and
sat down, her hands hanging spirit
less beside her.
She had been false to what she
had meant to DO. She had meant
to marry Gideon-for Chummy's
sake. She had meant to prove TO
Alan Steyne once and for all that
she was worthless and ready to sell
herself for gold. That would have
dcne the trick, she knew. Steyne
would have loathed and despised
her. and would have turned to
Chummy.
But she couldn't bring herself to
do it when il came to the point.
She was a coward-that was the
truth. Her triumph was q failure,
after all.
With a tremendous sigh she went
and tidied her hair, changed her
hat. put on q light wrap. and went
downstairs. asking the hall porter
to call her a cab. She was due at
one OF the smaller concert halls az
six o'clock. Gregor Gossteivitsch was
coming there to a room that they
had hired. He was bringing a GER
tain friend 70 play yer 70 her GER
tain parts OF the Suite E~cossaise"
that he had composed for her.
He had not been satisfied with
the finale the last time. and she
to dance 1t in Stockholm at an
early date. He could not play Il
himself. because Of his broken wrist
which. however. was doing as well
as could be expected.
AS she drove 10 the hall, her de-
preston spread itself over the Won
derful Scottish ballet music OF the
young master, and she wished he
had never written II for her.
Thraxv1A her rf0-al Itlr - ~auy shak
~gray-green scene OF mountain and
fir trees and brawling streams, with
the pale sun illuminating 1t.
But for the ingratitude Of II, she
would have decided then and there
not TO give that dance. She felt al
Of a sudden that II would be IN
that II would bring evil IN
its train. BY the time she reached
her destination, she dreaded the
bautiful Suit Ecossaise" as those
given TO superstition dread the evil
eye.
AS 1t happened. the Suite Ecos-
saise" set the seal on Judy's career.
The northern countries went mad
about IL. There was something in
hat Interpretation OF hers. much
elaborated since she had first dane
I'd IL a limproviste in Bruce Gil
icons music room, that aroused q
Of nervous enthusiasm in
he beholders.
Gossteivitsch went to Stockholm
With her. and to Copenhagen. and
% Christiania. and TO several other
owns in the Scandinavian coun-
.ries. He conducted his music. The
.wo were on terms Of the closest
friendship. Judy warmed to the
oianist's genius for life. as well as
70 his art. In rlanv ways she found
kindred soul in him.
Judy was very happy. as an artist
must be when her work not only
satisfies herself. but delights the
She know that she had never
lone anything better than the
Scottish dance. She knew 1t be-