Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-07-24
SYNOPSIS

SYNOPSIS
Moe Feinberg, producer of the must
cal show Lady Bird" takes Dixie
Mason out of the chorus and makes
her it's star. But Feinberg is willy
one and few of Dixie's associates can
intellectually congratulate her or
the promotion. They doubt whether
stardOm will be lasting. :. 80. -.
Dixie, still elated over the promo
tiOn, hurries from rehearsal to bid
BODILY to her brother, Bud, sailing
for Rio de Janeir0 to assume q cOvet-
ed bank job. His cabin mate is Blinn
SaybrOOk, a persOnable youth, who
Immediately takes great interest In
Dixie.
He surprises her by kissing her
gOOd-by and promising to attend the
performance of Lady Bird October
rs in New York.
The company is jOurneying to Bos-
ton for its opening and enrOute Dixie
is startled to read ON the billbOards
that Ada Baird, and not herself, is
the star of the production. Moe has
pulled another fast one.
AS the company returns to New
York Dixie's thoughts are conferred
or the night of October rs. Letters
from Blinn tell of his eagerness to
see her, and she feels chagrined that
she will be merely a chorus girl and
not the star of the production, as he
expects.
She appeals to Ada, but the star,
although friendly to Dixie, refuses
to absent herself on that evening.
But, by fair means or foul, Dixie in
tends to play the role.
At last the great day dawns, with
Ada enjoying her usual good health.
Dixie lays her plans. She sends
telegram to Ada's maid, calling her
out of town. Buying a quantity of
sleeping tablets, Dixie invites her.
self to Ada's for lunch. There she
pOurs the tablets into the tea. Her
plan works and she is called to take
the lead in the show.
CHAPTER FOUR
The big song number in the last
act went over so well that the whole
company sang the chorus over again,
and that was more than Ada had ever
made them ask for, thought Dixie, in
a seventh heaven of delight.
Oh, if there were only some critics
in the audience, so that she would get
some good notices in the papers to-
morrow. Her performances tonight,
topped by good notices tomorrow,
would do lot toward softening the
punishment she had to look forward
to when Moe discovered what had hap
pened to Ada. But that was too much
to hope for. The critics were too
busy going to openings to bother
about a show that had been on Broad
way month.
Oh, what did she care? Blinn had
come, and she had managed to be sing
ing the lead the night he came. That
was all she had been struggling for.
Nothing Moe could do to her would
matter now. Blinn was here. In just
a moment or two Blinn would take
her in his arms, and she would see
to it that she kept those arms about
her the rest of her life.
1t was when she was lined up with
the whole company taking bow that
half the audience didn't even see, so
busy were they getting ready for the
scramble for taxicabs and trains, that
a sudden stab Of fear shot through
her. Suppose she had given Ada too
much of that sleeping powder! Sup
pose there really was a grain of truth
in Ada's ever ready alibi when special
rehearsals were called.
ooh, my heart! My poor heart"
Ada always moaned when she was ask
cd to do anything she didn't want to
do.
Suppose Ada died!
Oh, why hadn't she thought of the
things that might happen before she
pulled a crazy trick like drugging
a famous star? Only her grease paint
saved her from telling that audience
that she was suddenly frightened al
most to death. Only the arms about
her of those on each side, as the whole
line bowed together, kept her on her
feet. Dixie Mason was literally scar
ed almost to death.
It suddenly dawned upon her that