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Show 'When a Star was Made Virginia Harding had Just returned from tho lat drees rehearsal. "Oh, Clara, isn't it terrible?" she almost wept to the actress who shared ' her hotel room. "That theater was :! Ilk a refrigerator and I caught cold. . My head is all stopped up. If I'm not j kept ln bed tomorrow I'll look like a : drfnping beet, and talk like a klaxon." :! - The play was to have its first per- -t formance Jn New York. A few days before the leading woman broke her ; ankle.- There was no one to play her fart but Virginia, the understudy. "Now, Just save the emotional stuff '" Cor tomorrow." Clara commanded. Til get a twenty-five cent box of . 4 Weeks' BreaJc-Up-A-Cold Tablets that , '.j will rid you of that cold over night." , "I haven't faith in cold tablets," ' Virginia replied. "Thn you have never used Weeks' ; '' Break-Up-A-Cold Tablets. They're dlf- ferent. They contain no calomel and 1 they simply won't make vou reel dull -or dopey, Clara said. '"iMiat is why X -Always Insist on Weeks' - ! The tablets were bought and Vlr-' " glnla took them, but with little con- ndence in their powers. In tho morn- : ing, however, she felt more fit than she had for days, but she rested until 1 theater time. i The performance went beautifully. ! . And when tho curtain rang down on V. Virginia's big third act scene, tho house broke Into a thunder of applause. ap-plause. Time and time again she was ; recalled. When the audience Anally let the play go on Virginia rushed into Clara's dressing room and hugged her. "Oh. Clara," she cried. "This wonder-ful wonder-ful night would hare been miserable If it wore not for you and Weeks' Break-Up-A-Cold Tablets." , |