The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-10

to miss the call'
 Hurrylng to tho dressing room Shcila slipped nickel in the coin telephone and gave the sam per's number.
 Tile answered the call. Sheila nsked shakiy. May l come up and stay all night? Something has happened oh. no -- tt isn't serious, l just don't want to be alone"
 Tillle Samper said cheerily that they would be glad to have her, Was she afraid 10 come to tho Heights alone? Is so one of them would bo glad to call for her.
 "IIl take taXI," ShcIla said wcarily. "I'm all in anyhow"
 Two hours later she was crying herself to sleep in rifles bed. "Why don't you stay here all tho time, Sheila?" the sisters sug- gcstcd The suggestion seemed a good one. The following Saturday Shcila moved her trunk to the Sampcr apartment.
 Jerry tclcphoncd 10 Ma LowoIi's roonIug house twice, The second | time Shciln was there and talked to him. No, she said, she wasn't angry She had engagements, that was all, lie should have let her | know he was coming, "You arc being silly" Jerry told her, laughing. It was not q serious matter with him. "Why not have dinner with me tonlght"' You mean with you and your sstora?"
 Hardly! How on earth could we talk with them nround?' "Whcn am going to meet scarcely recognIHod ns hcr own.
 "I don't know DO you really want 10 ?'
 GOT course"
 "Wcu, then I'll fix 1t up some time, but that's not the point, 1 | want 10 know If you're dining wIh me toniRht?"
 "Cal mo at (" shoIla told him,
 At 5:30 she slipped Into Il movie thoatcr feeling very for lorn Indeed Thus she missed Jcrry'B call and Wcpt because she missed it,
 ShoiIn found that living with the Sampcra was pleasant. Tho girls father and mother were old l fashioned parents. They had lived | In the same spacious apartment | for years. Mir, Sampor Ht one | time had had holdings of consid' crabln value in New York'B lower East Side. Recently these had shrunE, IIc had retired and with the salary the girls earned inc fnnIly lived n8 comfortably 1s bee | fore.
 None Of the sisters were bcnulI- ful but all were attractive, They l had found themselves on inc | stage by unusual circumstancnB, | Tllin, Clara and Evelyn, riding | together on n FIrth avenue bus and thinking themselves the only ! passengers, had been crOonInR to- 1 gethcr, blending their voices ln l clonc harmony lt happened that ] Jake T0lman theatrical agent | sitting q few seats behind, heard them f. waB not until thc bus | had reached Washington Heights | thGt he had convinced them hc wn8 not mnphGr bent on cheap l lllrtatlom
 Even then they declined 10 give him their names Cautiously Inc l followed them 10 their address, learned their nam" and eventually | WO n Mrs SnnpGr6 favor lie promised that fl tho girls would | let him act aH their agent they could so on the stage aB hend- liners They would never have tO begin on Il lower funB of the | ladder.
 They appeared on Broadway | first in n musical show, n fnsL moving, nautical piece fin which | they were an instant hit Mother | snmpGr, in hired ear, cBcOftod them 10 and from the tbentcr. Thus they seldom met other stage | folk.
 The five girls cr0Oned in close harmony but only four signed | with Jake. This left the nth for nIl.in dates. Any one of thc girls could take night off without even asking permission. The hfth took her place and 10 ono could tell the difference.
 BhriIn roOmed with Eve. tho youngest and prcttiost Shmpef. She liked the ncigbbOfbood, the friendllness and the homeliko