The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-16
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 STELLA SHAYNE, IS, whose
 arents were well known vaude-
 Nile actors, is fin New York lock- Ehg for a job. Sheila is a dancer. Xn spite of the fact that she has
 epnt almost her entire life on the 4tage her ambition IS to marry and have Q home like those she has Been in small towns i'm which she has played.
 II On e few hours notice she is llired to take the place of DAISY GLEASON. another dancer, who has sprained an ankle. SheiIa goes to JOE PARIS office i'm ''Tin Pan Alley" to rehearse. There she meets TREVOR LANE and DICK STANLEY. both rich. Lane sIxs Sheila to dance at party he is giving but she refuses, knowing that after Q day of fehearsing and the performance that night she will be too tired.
 She goes to the theater and there meets PHIL SHORT, an old acquaintance.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER VII.
 Sheila was glad to see someone she knew - even an old sweet heart like Phil Short. A sweet herat who, as a matter of fact, had dropped her suddenly with out warning. Why had Phil stopped coming to see her? Why had he stopped telephoning Sheila had never known.
 And nonchalantly as though nothing had happened, as though he had seen her only few days before, Phil stood there. Well, noth- ing had happened, really. After what the most caustic observer would have called rush Phil had simply disappeared.
 Perhaps he had had bad year, though now he seemed prosper ous. Saxophonists are well paid himself had once poiDted out that what he saves that counts. Living had become cheaper.
 In spite of the hearty greeting anM the nonchalant manner, Sheila saw almost at once that Phil wore a harassed look. Even with an old score to pay off, she felt sorry for him.
 "So you're taking Daisy's placer" he was saying. That's fine, Sheila. I've often wondered what you were doing"
 Wasn't the telephone working down your way?" she asked, half vexed, half laughing.
 TT couldn't call you" Phil began. Plainly he was embar- rassed. "But he was embar- 1'assed. "But that doesn't mean l didn't think about you" Well, thoughts keep a person warm in the winter," was her re- sponse, the caustic phrase. bor- |rowed from Ma Lowell. Then Sheila relented.
 "Of course I'll have dinner with you. We can't be long, though"
 There's, a little place near," Phil explained.
 During the dinner he explained other things. Upon leaving Ma Lowell's rooming house, said Phil, he had married. Yes, mar ried. His face clouded n trif1e as he said the word, and 1t was evi- dent that the marriage was not, for some reason, a happy one. Ho was vague about 1t. The girls namc was Mildred. She came from his home town-somewhere near Des Moines.
 Just now, with conditions as they were, Mildred was living with Phil's parents. Sheila gath cred that the daughter-in-law-- strangely enough-had more de- sirable place in the hearts of the Short family than didn the so. '"The folks think the world and all of Mflly," was the way Phil put 1t.
 The dinner was excellent, though hurried. Sheila ordered lightly, as Phil did aso, for both had the performance to think of. The act would go on in three-quarters of an hour.
 The young man was friendly, agreeable. It was nice to see Phil again. lin show business one couldn't always account for sud- den departures, failures to ex- plain, omitted farewells. By the time she reached the dressing room Shelia left rather friendly toward her old admirer and a lit- tie sorry for Mildred. Though his attitude toward Shelia had been above reproach, there, was no denying the fact the Phil was flirt.
 Back in the dresssing room, the s'arty dancers" as Lottie had somewhat scornfully dubbed them. had returned from half hours ---------------------------------