The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-11
G9fo1gottens SWEETHEART
SYNOPSIS

JOAN WAKING, pretty Mem.
 phis girl, and BOB WESTON, son of a New York millionaire,
 meet and fall in love. The TO. nance progresses happily until they arc invited to a house party. Then, through the schem- ing of BARBARA COURTNEY who is trying to win Bob, Joan and Bob become estrangeu.
 Meanwhile PAT WAKING, Joan's younger sister, is in an automobile accident and JERRY FORESTER, her escort, is killed. It becomes known that they were returning from a night club and that Jerry had been drinking. BOb's father reads about the accident and asks his son to give up Joan.
 Pat runs away to New York. Joan follows, searching for her sister and also for a job to en. able her to reain in New York, She is engaged as Q masked stnged at a night club owned by . BARNEY BLAKE. who proves Q steadfast friend.
 Pat is discharged from the wholesale house where she worked as a model. She hunts Tor another job without success.
 Joan makes her first appear ance as cabaret singer and is a big success.
 CHAPTER XXIv
 There was a ripple of approval and then silence as Joan's clear, lovely voice lifted in an old sea chanty. The young figure swaggered across the platform in imitation of 8 veteran tar. At the end of her song, applause rocked the place, rolling thunderously back to the dressing quarters. Barney hurried to meet Joan.
 '.Atta grill" he cried. "You're putting it across. Now hurry into that gypsy outfit" Joan flew to her room, returning in. moment. The applause was still continuing "a jaded public's reaction to beauty and the unusual.
 Joan, in her yellow and scarlet costume, with her cloudy hair about her shoulders, received an- other ovation.
 "No more songs, Joan. We'll make 'em beg!"
 They did beg. And finally Joan sang an encore. A hauntingly sweet gypsy love song, in contrast to the gay, provocative song be- fore.
 Other performers crowded gave her an impulsive hug, whis- pering. How does it feel to be a big hit? Barney had patted her hands, Q light of Approval in his eyes.
 All of it seemed unreal to Joan. An hour before she had been Joan Waring. struggling for composure, standing on the verge of an adven- ture. Now she was on an equal foting with these other entertain CTS. She was a cabaret singer! The transition had been made with costume, expert makeup and a little black mask.
 Barney was laughing exultantly. "You made them sit up, didn't you? Little singer of songs. Joan, there must have been lad who loved the sea among your ancestors and a gypsy lass who lured man with her grace and sweet singing. Magic, my dear. I am a rank ma terialist, proposing to commercial ize it."
 They had a midnight supper to CGlcUIdlc. oII lIlc Wdy lO OOdA 5 hotel Barney told her she would be advertised now as "the mystery woman," and the Girl with the Mask" And then watch her fan mail grow!
 He looked about the unpreten- tious hotel lobby, drowning a little. Then grinned. "Who ever heard of cabaret singer in place like this?" he asked.
 T like it," Joan said. "It's quiet. I can think here?"
 "Who ever heard of cabaret singer thinking?" Barney retorted.
 Joan laughed at him.
 AS Barney had foreseen, the masked idea, handled differently" was enthusiastically received by night club patrons. No detail was overlooked. Discriminating selec- tion of loans songs. her costumes, all played a part. And then there was her lovely voice.
 A gossip columnist started the rumor that the marked cabaret singer was from the Orient, declar- ing there was certainly something oriental in her slender hands and the wistful melancholy quality in her voice.
 Barney was shrewdly capitaliz- ing such speculation. Reports, care fully circulated, were heard that the mask hid 9 scared face, the result of an accident. There were other reports that the singer was member of an impoverished fam