| Show i Y t tI I 3 I o 6 I I C i I 6 kI 2 w hI d J JI I y r rs t f fi c i t ti ti i c w i i il l r r i i ik 4 If l jJ t cr 0 l ii 4 r It c 1 1 l y f t a aI Being the Truly Truly Story tor y y I I i ir I o of Sallie a Fisher is e r and an Arabella rae a 1 r r Margret ar ref Clorinda orm a Lucile uc a Bootjack 1 u n n u UJ nil fairy airy stories begin there ther was a little tittle girl jirl called Cinderella who lived away oft off in a lonely lonel place She never had any fun or 01 went ent to parties or wore fine clothes cloths or had any other little girls to play with One night the king gave gae gaea I a grand ball at the tho palace Everybody went but ut Cinderella She Sl sat In her shabby clothes by the fire crying c ing she was so unhappy All Ml at once a fairy godmother ap appeared appeared and touched her rags with a awand awand awand wand a magic wand it was and her rags raga turned into a beautiful gown The fairy godmother told her to go to the ball and she BIle went and everybody was wits bewildered by her beauty and her sis sisters sisters t rs and people had QUI her before beCore did not recognize that this beau beat beautiful beautiful girl was the little Cinderella they 49 so plain She danced with the tle prince and was oh so H o happy happ but she sh forgot to be back when the fairy fal said At 12 she was still dancing and then her beautiful gown changed back to tags rags and she crept out of the ballroom alone and back to the fire fireplace fireplace fireplace place But the tho fairy godmother did not de desort desert sort sert her bel and the tho princes son caused a search to be made through the king kingdom kingdom kingdom dom and finally he found her and then 1 beauty and talents were recognized and everybody wondered why wh they had not noticed it before and so 00 she Ih married the prince and amI every everybody ever everybody body lived happily ever afterward That Is h the story of Cinderella as Jack Tack Barr m re tells it every evening to to Sallie Saute Fisher prima donna of the Stubborn Cinderella company at the Princess theatre Chicago As she sits with the red glow of the th property bon bonfire bonfire bonfire fire lighting up her piquant face and listens with a look of enraptured inter interest est ost st to the story but few of the audience audi ence realize re that Miss oUss Fisher is not only oily 11 a Cinderella on the stage but in her hir own right There are people who will insist that there are no fairies any an anymore more marC except the kind in to the soap ads and the tho buxom fairies that shoot up from unsuspected u traps in the theatre and who wear pink tights and weigh 10 lo pounds apiece This all aJl most un untrue untrue true There arc fairies and fairy godmothers ers Pt and Miss Fisher is blessed with a to fairy godmother a most accomplished accompli shoo nd accommodating fairy fal godmother a fairy fair godmother who has h 8 caused all her dearest wishes to come true Miss Fishier Fisher does not like to talk about her godmother perhaps for tor fear that that godmother iother will become peevish and rc the position but all Miss Fishers Intimate friends have met i godmother who is the special care of or Loretta Miss s Fishers Fisher colored majd mald and whose those official title is Arabella Mar lIar Margret i gret orinda Clorinda Lucile Luclle Bootjack Arabel Arabella la Margret Clorinda Lucile Bootjack clime into Sallie Fishers life Ufe when she sheal was vas al Tty v ry young but her ter abilities as Q fairy godmother were not made fully full cup u U r lIe 3 wu NaO In ny 15 years old But the fairy fah story of Sallie Fisher is like ilke this tilts Once upon a time that is the way wa all fairy stories should start there was wasa as asa a little girl named Sallie Saute Fisher who lived away awa off in a lonely place half halfway halfway way wa between Cheyenne and Laramie Wyo yo which is about a block and a half from the place The little girl lived in a sod house hou e far from anyone anyon and it was very er lonely lonel lonelier than Liberty park at 5 in th morning This little girl irl did not have any line fine clothes or any an other little girls to play piny pIR with but she had Arabella i Margret Clorinda Lucile Bootjack Once a month her father would T let lpt t ther her har ride with hint hila seventy five miles toa to toa toa a little town ton on the railroad which is ison ison on the map if you OU have the right kind kina of a map mall While hilI papa bought provisions prowls provis ions he lie would let Sallie watch the train go jo by h They only onh let lel her see lie the train go by h once a month because so much mad mud excitement Is not good for a child Then her father and mother brought I her to Lake to live Sallie us u used od fl to i dream m wonderful thins things s She loved lod to sing and yearned with all her heart to become bome a great singer but hut no one paid any an attention to her singing And often she used to cry cr because people would notice her pretty play playmates playmates playmates mates aid tell them how beautiful they the were and then as they y went away awa they would say sa Oh what child is that Why Vh that is 11 little Sallie Fisher poor thing but dont cry 1 dearie you have pretty teeth anyhow an how Then Sallie would weep we p her troubles out to Ara Arabella Arabella Arabella bella Margret Clorinda Lucile Bootjack who had once been a common iron bootjack When VIlen it nestled in Sallies arms it was disguised with a red petti petticoat petticoat petticoat coat and a wonderful blue green and yellow waist made madl from a silk hand handkerchief handkerchief kerchief given ghen Sallie by b a cowpuncher known as Lizard Face Mike like because lecause he was the homeliest man west of or th the Missouri river The bootjack also had real hair hall made out or rope and a nice artist who did plain and fancy white whitewashing whitewashing washing in the th neighborhood had cal the bootjacks face und cod paint painted ed lovely lovel green eyes and red lips on it and given a perfectly lovely loeb nose made out of putty Thus disguised the boot bootjack bootjack bootjack jack was no longer a mere device for forthe forthe forthe the removal of cowhides from the pedal extremities but was wac none other than Arabella Margret Clorinda Lucile Boot Bootjack Bootjack Bootjack jack jackWell Well Nell the little grew greo up and still she did not have fine fin clothes and diamonds dia dla diamonds monds and things s but she kept Ara Arabella Arabella Arabella bella Margret let Clorinda Luclle Bootjack I and told her all her troubles and her dreams dream and wept ept over her so that the kind lelnd whitewash artist used used to make a new face for Arabella Margret Clo Clorinda Clorinda rinda Lucile Luelle Bootjack every ever week But Sallie did ld not know that Arabella Mar Margret gret Clorinda Lucile Bootjack was a fairy godmother who was just waiting a chance chanc to grant rant her wishes and make her happy One day some Iome of the mem mom I at C I i c I l 1 y t tr I Ip r I I I II 1 f J Jt i t t E k I I I w 1 I It II I CV I t I I bers bets of the Home nome Opera company were passing the t le house hou c where Sallie lived and then Arabella lct Clorinda a Luelle Lucile Bootjack saw her opportunity She pretended that th tt she bhe was wm sleepy bleep and amI Sallie cuddled her to her breast and anti andl sang ang l her a lullaby which Sallies moth mother er cr had hall often sung in the old home In InY Wyoming Y When Whan Arabella Ara ella Margret Clorinda Lu Lucile Lucile Lucile cile Bootjack was asleep or pretended to bt be little Sallie Sallio found herself picked up by the young women who hold hid stopped to lIstell and they kissed ed her herand he herand and petted her and nobody y said any an how she had pretty teeth Next day da they came CalOO for tor her as the thc fairy fair god godmother godmother godmother mother had planned and took her to a teacher and gave gae her music lessons and anda a month afterward she sang in opera and all Salt Suit Lake raved over her and prophesied that some day she would be a great singer sin er The people who had heard her sing were so proud of pf her herand herand herand and so 10 sure of her wonderful voice that they sent her to a teacher in Chicago but she sho did not nut want other people to do i things for lor or her so after a few Lew months month she found a theatrical manager who was almost human and he let Sallie sing for him and engaged her on the spot for his chorus So she went on the road and played pla ed stands and when the work was hard and she was tired and homesick she used to tell toll Arabella Margret Clorinda Lucile Lucilo Bootjack all about it Being so far faraway faraway away awa from the kind artist in plain and fancy fanc whitewashing Arabella Margret Clorinda Lucile Luelle Bootjack had quite lost her pristine beauty but Sallie still loved her here A very e talented young Oung woman had written a beautiful song that she of fored ored to the manager of the company and he wanted to put it into the piece but ho Iw had no rio one who could sing it t just the right way vay Saute Sallie heard the composer play It over oer and sing it to the manager and it thrilled her and she drank in every ever note of it and caught the words of the chorus and went back to her dressing room after rehearsal and took Arabella Margaret Clorinda a Lucile Bootjack out of the trunk and cuddled her up in her arms and sang soft and low to her Dearie Deane my dearie deane Nothings worth while but dreaming of you And nd you ou can make every dream come true Dearie Deane my dearie deane Give me ne your hand h nd say you under understand f stand My Iy daarle d arle arie arleThe The manager was Just handing back hack the song on to the composer compose and savin saYin saying how sorry he h was that he had nobody who could sing it when the star slur of the tIle shOo shoe himself came out on the stage with the tears rolling roiling down his cheeks and tn said George George come back here Theres soma one ole in the next dr dressing dr room singing that song son and if the angels sing In that h t way In heaven I want to go there thereSo thereSo thereSo So the manager came back but he hI find anybody an body in the next nest room but a little chorus girl named Sallie Fisher Was it you oU singing in here asked the manager excitedly Yes Yee said Sallie but please dont fine tine me ana and Ill never do it again a aln And then they the all made a fuss over oar her herand herand and gave her the song to sing sin in ill the show shoo and she became a leading lady and lived happy over ever afterwards And so Arabella Margaret Lucile j i i I I had h d mule made every dream com corn I I true truc Loretta lorett J oUts Miss Fishers Fisher maid is a I II I of Arabella Margaret I Clorinda Lucile Ludle Bootjack who holds an honored place in Miss lIss I 1 dressing roon no matter matt where here she I 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