Show L Telegram Fiction D Dance ance H Hall a 11 L Lady a d. d 5 By Clayton Joan 1 II I. I rI I 1 went down to yesterday said Anne Lee suddenly She and lr Irene ne Ives her roommate were busy in their own hot tiny kitchen It was Sunday morning and leisurely preparations for breakfast were going forward Both girls wore vore pajamas and both smoked as they I worked Anne Annc was capping mushrooms for or a Spanish omelet while Irene def den ty t- t ly y spooned cool green balls from the halves wives of a honeydew melon The older girl turned as Anne spoke a frown creasing creasing- her forehead I 1 suppose you took a sob Job she offered of- of at last uncertainly You ou suppose exactly right said Anne with a youthful joyous laugh that hat covered the others other's lack of enthusiasm en- en She continued earnestly setting set set- ting Ing aside the mushrooms and beginning begin begin- ling ning to cut strips of green pepper r. r Its certainly a relief Irene to know that I something is is' coming in for a change Personally I decline to turn handsprings handsprings hand hand- springs because you got a job being hostess in a cent 10 dance hall Irene contributed sulkily in the tone of one who has hns argued the same subject many times Do you think I should sit back forever for for- ever everand and practice scales while white my bank balance swoops down to nothing just because of a silly prejudice I get fifty a week Irene remarked in the tone she had used before That should be plenty for two girls Its Ua your YOUl fifty not mine Anne Il e 1 4 pointed out with a proud lift of ot her blond ash-blond head Look here Irene tucked the melon into the ice box to chill and then perched herself on the shelf that Anne was using for a kitchen cabinet Look here she said again What is David going to say about your dancing with every cheap John who comes alo along g with a dime in his pocket Anne flushed David hasn't anything to lo say about it she r responded stiffly Its entirely m own affair If I could get anything else to do Id I'd jump at it It but you know how hard Ive I've tried is simply sim situ ply my last chance and Im I'm taking it it she sho ended her mouth firm her blue blueeyes blueeyes blueeyes eyes sober Ive got to take it Irene Ive I've nothing left in the bank nothing bank nothing at all I dont don't know where the moneys money's gone but it has hns gone Youre 23 arent aren't you jou Anne Irene observed with seeming Irrelevance At Atthe Atthe Atthe the others other's nod she said said and In In the the next few tew years you expect to get married married mar mar- ried ned dont don't you Why yes yes I suppose so The blue blueeyes blueeyes eyes were puzzled and watchfuL ANNE QUESTIONED Tell me Anne ar are arc you going to marry David The question was put wIthout Imper and without rancour Anne answered answered answered an an- ItI itI it tI t- t I dont don't honestly know kno she s sal said id slowly That means you do know said Ir Irene ne Then she went on on calmly Where do you you expect to meet the theman theman theman man youre you're going to marry In a dump like 1 People dont don't talk ut such things things' Anne cut in quickly nd d mechanically though for some reason reSSon her b breast east ro rote rose roteS e S Continued on Paso puo Seven S t 5 L J S Dance Hall Lady 1 Telegram By JOAN CLAYTON Ftc Fiction t t 0 11 Continued d from Pane PARC One and fell on a sharp You can cant can't talk about such about such things she said You Yo never fever know when or where you'll mec meet someone you'll like you never know kno what might happen Irene shook her slick sUck black head She was Annes Anne's Ei senior by only five years but at the moment she looked looke infinitely older That s where youre you're wrong honey she told the younger girl That where youre you're wr wrong ng Unless you la lay plans hi iri a town like New York nothings nothing's nothings nothings noth ings ing's ever going to happen except that tha you'll get a little older and a little farther from rom the Uie things you Want lant Lets dont don't discuss it any more more said Anne in an edged voice She f fi fin finished in- in peeling a button of garlic added adde it to the sauce and put the mixture over a a agas gas burner turned low to kee keep the he heat at a minimum Irene sighed slid to the floor an and began setting the table Once sh she started to speak and then changed he her mind She ballooned the clean cloth clot they they always had a a. a clean cloth fo for Sundays and Sundays and stood back to admire the he silver spoons that had belonged Anne's Annes o mother Originally of ot soft heavy silver worn now at the handles handle to o paper thinness the spoons had journeyed journeyed journeyed jour jour- from England to the first Sydney Sydney Syd Syd- ney Lee who settling in the wild wilt Americans had declined to live lika lIke lik a savage sir Irene had heard th the story often and never failed ailed to be secretly secretly se se- se impressed There were no sue such stories in her own family Again sh she stole a glance at Anne but bu Anne was wa elaborately testing the consistency o oher of her omelet KITCHEN PLEASANT The kitchen was pleasant l tin in ter er time with the rattle of ot hail o or sleet against the window cozy and in intimate exciting almost but in the sum sum- mar mer it was too small and cramped too oo unbearably hot In the beginning the girls had boasted often of the their real kitchen with its shining nickel range and cunning microscopic sink had bad exulted because cause it was large larg enough to crowd in the tiny table where they dined unless dined unless they had hac guests Then they grandly used the studio This morning Anne hated the kitchen kitch kitch- en hated the soiled yellow curtains curtain that hat hung motionless at the single winlow window win win- dow low hated the familiar dirty airs haft that hat was the only view She brushed aside the curtains to stare outside Sudden tears blurred her eyes ees so that tha the he broken bottles the tin Un cans anc and the he smashed crockery which the tie paved courtyard below seemed to dance in the hot sunshine She gulped looked fixedly at the pink and andred red ed geraniums blooming languidly In inthe inthe the tie window box Then as always there here came to her a nostalgic vision o ot of the he parent geraniums which flourished flour shed luxuriant and brilliant in one corner orner of ot a sprawling garden hundreds hundreds hun hun- reds of miles away a garden than that tha In n her wistful memory seemed to hold the he heart of her childhood the magical magical magi magi- cal dreams of her childhood She felt Irenes Irene's hand slipped into her ler own hand She turned smiled Irene rene smiled They were friends again gain Presently they were both sit sit- ing ng we wearily and luxuriously over the breakfast table sipping the grateful coolness of ot iced coffee talking idly of f plans for the afternoon Irene was not reconciled but at any rate ate she kept silent For days the two wo girls had wrangled over Annes Anne's decision to accept a job dancing at al one of New Yorks York's largest and nd known best taxi dance halls halts Irene definitely did not think the job good enough nough Nor for that matter maUer did Anne But the turn that the arguments arguments ments had rod taken had plunged her Into ito a mood of stubborn ibm tion on If It Irene had contented herself hersell with saying that was a heap cheap vulgar place to work that dancing with all comers corners for 10 cents a dance was a cheap vulgar occupation occupation I pation Anne would willingly have agreed greed Irene did not do that Always she had spoken of ot men always al al- ways she had said that the right kind of f men did not go to and andy by y the right kind of men she meant men Tien with money DREAMS REAMS OF WEALTH Anne was not indifferent to wealth to o comfort to luxury She like thousands thou thou- sands ands of other girls had lain in bed bedat bedat at t night wide-eyed wide in the darkness dreaming reaming of the one man the man the rich fascinating man who man who would some someday someday day lay appear to turn all the world Into colors of rose She had dreamed of ofa a man who played polo and lar r tennis went south in the winter and md the mountains in fri the summer had iad seen herself hersel smiling from the head head ead of ot a flower banked light candle ed d table into adoring eyes at the the- theop oppOsite opposite op- op end That was one thing It was vas quite another to discuss as Irene discussed the practical aspects of locating lo- lo eating cating and capturing such a man There was a streak of calculating hardness hardness hard- hard ness ess in the older girl that left the younger irritated and discouraged When Irene spoke again Anne stif stif- ned automatically You didn't go to see Chick Ames did d you said Irene Chick Ames was not a man with money oney he was a man with influence ot of f sorts a friend of Irenes Chick Chickas was as a loud boisterous red-faced red person peron person per- per son on too eager to make capital from rom his s acquaintance with the great and he the e near great too eager to recall that end week spent at Rye in the home of a railroad presidents president's son or a never never- to-be-forgotten to tour of Broadway he hi had once made accompanied by th the royal scion of a tiny European prin prim Anne hated Chick Ames He did no not understand or share her feelings Often he would approach her anc and suggest in a a confidential whisper that tha if she ever wanted a job in the nightclub nightclub night night- club belt where a looking good-looking jane Jan like you sweetheart c can n strike pa pay dirt he would help Then she particularly par hated him hun she did not wan want his aid or patronage She looked at Irene and scowled I dont don't like Chick Ames she sal said snappishly KNOWS EVERYONE Neither do I particularly Irene Iren conceded indifferently But hi he knows everyone who is anyone on 01 Broadway and if it you could co ld get Into int the Topaz club or one of the other smart clubs clubs clubs- If It you tell me again that the only chance for girls like us to meet rich rid men is in night-club night work said Anne Anni warningly if it you tell me that again Irene hene Ill I'll get up and leave the table Irene grinned Im not going to she promised But I still cant can't cantsee see your objection t to making a little something out of your you voice Heaven knows youve you've poured enough money into ILI it IL itI I I didn't pour money Into my ray voice with the idea of singing In a night nigh nightclub nightclub club Anne responded somewhat prig prig- priggishly She laughed a little shamefacedly shamefacedly shame shame- shamefacedly at her own tone and said Drop It Irene drop it it for mercy's mercy sake or well we'll be quarreling and it its it's entirely too hot for quarreling S Listlessly she brushed a lock of hair hal from her brow and dropped her head heat to her locked elbows Her tumbled pale gold hair shone In the sun her ie eyes were thoughtful and solemn ant anther and her roommate thought her particularly particular lovely in the thin square-necked square pajamas pajamas pa pa- jamas lovely and almost most childishly young The things thing's settled now Anne Ann Anne roused to say Settled for all time I start work tomorrow night With luck I should ni make nake ke from twenty-five twenty to Lo thirty a week My lessons are pale up and even twenty a week should carry me until something better comes along Whom did you talk to at Lotus Lotus- land Irene inquired A funn funny little fat man named Conrad Conrad Conrad Con Con- rad Smith Anne replied with a quick upward look at an odd note in inthe inthe the others other's voice Why Just wondered said Irene care care- lessly STUDIO PHONE RINGS The phone rang in the studio the studio that with a bath and a minute dressing room completed the establishment establishment of Irene Ives and Anne Lee music student and clothes model Irene rose hurriedly Through the open door Anne heard beard her at the telephone heard her say grand Ten thousand thanks Well We'll be ready And then she was back in the kitchen her black blackeyes blackeyes blackeyes eyes dancing suppressing excitement in her manner That was Chick calling caIling she an an- Hes bringing along another arioth- arioth er man and a car and wants us for tor a drive rive Could you ou pick out a b better day for getting out of town Anne hesitated What were you and Chick talking about Oh that Just Jus something I asked him lim to lo do for me Irene answered squarely meeting her roommates roommate's eye Still Anne hesitated David said he might come by later she offered doubtfully You can have David any time Irene frene said persuasively Anyhow ne lie might not show up at all and if it you are wor worrying about Chick you needn't need need- nt xit Ill I'll take him of off your hands well we'll welle be bc e in the back seat You might like the he other fellow his fellow his names name's Richard Graeme Chick said he was one swell guy Dp Do come Anne I told them you wo would ld I thought you'd be crazy to o get out in hi the country Green fields country countr air a chance to 0 escape the city smells if only for a afew afew few ew hours hours Anne Anne capitulated The Themen Themen men would arrive In 30 minutes The girls rushed around stacking the he there dishes dishes there was not much time to wash them them pIcking picking up scattered Sunday Sun Sun- day ay papers dashing through their showers howers and into the coolest frocks they hey owned fresh dotted Swiss in dark blue alue for Anne rose colored organdy for Irene The organdy needed pre ing ng but as Irene cheerfully observed after fter 15 minutes In an open car one couldn't tell the difference They had barely finished when the buzzer sounded The men did not come ome up The girls walked down the five ive flights lights It was an elevator apartment apartment apartment apart apart- ment but the service was so s erratic that hat walking saved time They reached the lobby Chick Ames was standing near the outer door with the other man Anne looked quickly at the latter NOT Nor LIKE CHICK Even in the f first glance she saw that he was not like Chick not like Chic Chiefs Chief's s 's other friends Richard Graeme wasa was a 1 tall hatless man in flannels an ugly man whose long lean head was set et with distinction on rather narrow narrow nar nar- row shoulders There was nothing of Broadway about him hun nothing of Broadway about his clothes or man- man ncr ner He was leaning casually against the wall vail as he waited his legs crossed a i faint scowl on his forehead he was was was' looking in fact distinctly bored Good morning peaches exclaimed exclaimed ex- ex claimed Chick in loud and boisterous greeting when Anne and Irene ap ap- ap Meet your our girl friend Dick he said This is little Anne AnneLee AnneLee AnneLee Lee one of the big towns town's best blondes Anne evaded his pawing grasp shot shota a glance at the other man The boredom bore- bore dom dorn om had magically vanished from Richards Richard's face to be replaced by an expression of ot quick vivid interest He put ut out his hand and she a accepted itI it itI itI I didn't expect expect- you expect you ou he said slowly lowly He laughed confusedly and with a flash of ot even white teeth that made nade his ugliness fascinating Whom did you expect Anne inquired inquired in- in m- m coolly withdrawing slightly before his open admiration That young ladys lady's got one mean tongue Chick warned his companion companion com corn panion grinning foolishly and ami- ami ably bly Sorry now you came cam Dick he be- asked No said Richard briefly I had a n devil n of a time getting him here her Chick turned to remark to Irene rene He He Shut up Irene snapped Arent we ever going to get along Anne tried and failed to meet her |