The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-11

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/ lark. Maybe I could make more
money than I make for dancing
Then his smile would fade away
as he thought about the future.
Gee, sweetheart" he'd say, Il
wish vaudeville was still going. You
and. I would make a pretty swell
dancing team. That way we could
go places. Probably have our names
in lights in two years"
Of course, they shouldn't have
married. But they did. They had
to make matters worse. One day,
after their wedding, Xvonne, pull
irg a stocking on her shapely leg,
stretched and yawned.
This getting up at 10 o'clock to
rehearSes new number is awful ag-
gravating," she said. I'm glad I
won't have to do it much longer"
Cant you ever get out of bed
without waking me up?" Harold pro-
tested sleepily What do yo, mean,
you won't have to go to rehearsals
much longer?"
why" Yvonne pulled on the
other stocking, didn't you know?
I'm going to have a baby. Yes, sir!
Little Yvonne Printemps Darrick is
about to shed her youth and become
mother, And big black Harold
Darrick is going to become father
and the sole support of Yvonne and
the little one-I think We'll call him
Mike"
"DUT, Yvonne!" Harold said and
- sat up straight in bed and ran
both hands through his hair. 1--WE
can't afford to have baby! Why,
we haven't dime except what we
both earn! How are we going to
pay the hospital and doctors bills?"
why. I don't know" Yvonne
carelessly admitted. Il never even
thought of it-except every night
for weeks
Then she turned over on her
stomach on the bed and cried. ST
didn't want to have a baby!" she
walled. II wanted to wait until we
could afford one! Now, I'll have to
quit my job in the chorus!"
Never mind, kidd" Harold
reached over and took her in his
arms. II can handle this. You go
ahead and quit your job. I'm aw-
fully glad the baby is coming. 1t
will keep you home nights"
So that was that and time went
on. Yvonne quit her job two months
after that conversation and Harold
carried on for four months alone.
But his salary wasn't anything to
brag about and one thing and
another took it every week.
1t was week before the baby
was due that Harold's show closed.
He had had ample warning and he
told himself he wasn't worried. He
spent his mornings haunting agen-
cies with no luck at all. There
wasn't job in sight.
Three days before the baby was
born, Harold went to the tin box
in which he kept his money and
found therein 78 cents. He put the
box carefully back in its place and
went into the front room of their
apartment to think about where he
could get money and quickly.
y II
LIE thought OF every possible
n Il place in show business. He
went outside of show business and
thought of every possible place
there, even to bank robbery. But
he couldn't think of any place or
any way he could make money I'M
til his eve happened to fall on his
violin case. And there he got his
idea.
The next morning, he slipped out
of the apartment about 9 O'Clock
while Yvonne was asleep He got
on a subway and rode down to
Eighth st and there he began a
round OF areaways beneath the
large apartments. He played there
all the popular tunes, housewives
raised their curtains and, pleased
at what they heard, sweet music, and
what they saw, a handsome, dark.
intense young man. persuaded them
to raise their windows and shower
down silver in really substantial
amounts.
That night, Harold walked into
the apartment with $2S and told
Yvonne he had a job.
The baby was born in Bellevue
because he made his entrance with
practically no warning and Yvonne
was carted away in an ambulance.
y was a boy and the official time
Of his arrival was $50 a. m. of an
intensely cold winter day. Harold
took long look at him and went
away from there with his violin.
LIE had been playing in area
l. Il ways for two weeks and he was
doing very well. This morning he
went up in the Thirties. He was
doing as well there as he had always
done. But policeman, with a
strong sense of duty in his heart
and no music in his soul, arrested
him and charged with with disor-
derby conduct and soliciting aims.
Harold didn't visit Yvonne and
the baby at all that day because he
was in a cell. But the next morn