Show Wee Wee- FICTION G DA DANCING By C CHARLES I DORIAN SHOES s I HILE a vast throng of theatregoers theatregoers theatregoers theatre theatre- Q WHILE goers passed through the exits of the Orpheum the beautiful blonde attraction left quietly by the stage door on the arm of her most ardent admirer the owner of ot the theatre and string of others At the curb stood Max Berbers Berber's limousine and just ahead of ot it it a taxi Four maudlin Collegians having a song sing obstructed the entrance to Berbers Berber's car but made way while the lady stepped In la Then suddenly three of them gave Berber the bums bum's rush while the fourth clambered in beside Paula Pauleen tap dancer extraordinary Max spluttered and fumed while the three kidded him A letter was pressed into his clenching fist and ande e Minute his car keys were 3 Fiction frisked from him The taxi jumped forward and in a moment was followed by the limousine lim nm- carrying the dancer and four members of the notorious Scarlet Scarlet Scarlet Scar Scar- let Gang in evening clothes and top hats still simulating drunken collegians collegians col col- col- col singing to drown out the cries of the distressed dancer In the Holland Tunnel the singsong singsong singsong sing sing- song ceased and one of the gang said to the girl This is something new In kidnaps kid kid- naps sister Were We're all aU jolly good fellows members of a theatrical troupe to the general public But dont don't get us wrong Wed We'd rub you out as quick as any Broadway mug if you failed for a minute to join the spirit of our little game Your big boy has Just read our demands in a note left with him the Ill Ill I'll Ill I'll pay you chatted little dancer Please my con con- M tract I must dance every night CAR sped ped along for thirty THE TIE miles mUes and turned Into a nat naf ro rov road License plates were miles another fifty switched and stopped topped at a rau rau- sped aped by They parked the car caron caron caron road village and They change changed their th-lr on a side aide street toppers for tor peak caps and entered the railroad station Oh Oh Ob youre you're oure the troupe from grinned the the opery oper house bouse operator Thought there was two girls Iris In to the party pari impersonator Impersonator imper imper- female One Cne of ot us u. U Is a hawl bawl The bawl hawl operator J- J laughed laughed the spokesman stamping the e tick too and began min mia thirty m due for tor eu ets Trains not cot be he apologized 1 lOK l. l ute utes yet I OK brother will well P put on s sOK while were we're show how little Paula mUe lie He strode over to hissed hissed and Ind d out h SMILE he UJ sister ister Rand Rano i give Sally loud Come on but best Imitation tbt gentleman your ot of tan fan dance Paula a wu was ready to but buttered t en Into the g game b by a bad the that number be whirling tap f Some sing ing operators operator's tag Ing followed eyes and r popping r a bottle boUl Will was passed around Now another dance ordered the master of ceremonies Just a slow one pleaded Paula Im very tired Oh Ob all right yawned the fel fel- fel- fel low She made a long slow stride straight to the operator and whispered whispered whispered whis whis- Listen I Then she performed performed performed per- per formed a painfully punctuated dance with more body undulations than footwork The bottle passed around again and the operator wen went I to his key took an order sent one and In a a few minutes the train was In They boarded It U. Sargo was a small city A taxi was read ready waiting for tor them and whisked them out Into the country where the they got out in front of a big house Every shadow exuded a police officer Eight of them had pinioned the four collegians before thedoor the thedoor thedoor door opened and two more seized the servant Paula promptly fainted Two officers officers officers of of- carried her to safety This house has been under suspicion suspicion suspicion sus sus- for a long longtime time said an of of- Paula When that operator operators operator's operators operator's opera opera- tors tor's message mentioned Sargo we posted a squad at the house Heres Here's the car now which followed their taxi from the depot Oh yes Paulas Paula's dad had been beena a station agent and had taught her ber berto herto herto to tap dance the Morse Morae code |