Show i V A biride well W un ST Is the story of a sage woo J ing it took place six years 1 I ago when manager engel was running a burlesque theater in anew york mr engel was just putting on a new burlesque and he wanted wo dozen young women to appear in the chorus his office was on the stage and to him one morning appeared two young and pretty girls one of the girls had evidently been on the stage before the other was as evidently new to the business being both fresh young and pretty the manager gave them a chance to see what they could do in otto my prince she said the way of singing and dancing the younger girl especially proved to be extremely clever and mr engel was glad to give them both an engagement the little girl soon became a gen eral favorite with everybody connect ed with the theater not only was she quick to learn and a good singer but she went out of her way to do kind things tor other stage people who got into trouble mr engel was especially attracted by the child she wag not yet 18 and he tried to find out as much as he could of her past life with the idea 0 writing to her people and suggest ing that they take their daughter off the stage but in spite of his con efforts he found out little only that the girl came from milwaukee nellie se said to her one even ing where do your parents lived in Milwaukee 7 father and mother are both dead long ago said nellie with a look in her innocent blue eyes that went straight to the heart even of a bur lesque manager I 1 haven t a relative living in the course of two months the pretty young girl had been promoted to a principal part in the burlesque of beauty and the beast she was the bleeping beauty and it was her duty to lie apparently asleep in soft white robes on a couch of gold until she was awakened by the coming of the prince then she sprang up with a cry of joy and ran into his arms she made a dainty little princess and her scene with the prince was always a hit with the house one morning a big fair haired young man called on manager engel he was accompanied by an elderly woman dressed in black he introduced him self as a wholesale sausage amer of milwaukee the elderly worn an whom he was escorting was the mother of mr engel s fairy princess according to the story told him by the pair the girl had graduated from the high school the previous june she had been engaged to mairy the big yella haired maker of sausages sud denly one day she disappeared leav ing behind her two letters one for her mother and the other fur the man she was to marry to her mother she wrote that she was going away to make a name for herself on the stage and that she would keep her whereabouts a secret until she had shown her fitness for a dramatic career to her lover she wrote releasing him from their engagement she could not bring herself to settle down as the wife of a mere sausage mal er she must have some romance some color in her life she was atit good enough for him anyhow he easily find a girl who could make him much happier than she could ever hope to do and so on in some way the details of which mr engel has forgotten the two traced the girl to new york and to his theater now they wanted his help in getting her to go home with them he gladly gave it though the success of their plan to him the loss of father and mother are both dead sa d nell e a star this was the plan finally agreed upon in her scene with the prince the fairy princess came on the stage all alone and lay down to sleep on the couch in the center then while her eyes were shut the prince came on and wal ened her ty singing she aroused herself and making out the prince standing by the far side of her couch flew into his wide opened arms the actor who played the prince was called into the conference and among the three men a plot was carefully ar ranged it WM agreed that the man I 1 from milwaukee should be smuggled down antu the dressing room of the real prince who was to play his own part right through the play it cama to the scene with the princess at that point the man from kee was to put on the gorgeous ic bea sot the prince and go on to the tage after the princess had gone to kleeb on the couch the actor who played tha prince agreed to help out the love in his impromptu role by standing in the wings and singing the tenor sole by the sound of which the princess was awakened then when the prin ess awoke and sat up to greet her prince she would see for the first time tha face of her faithful lover from walkee waukee and would be in duty boand to rush into his open arms that of thing it was figured would certain ly realize the most romantic drema of the runaway high school girl the scheme was carried out and worked perfectly the girl s sat in a box where she could see without being seen the lover from milwaukee slipped down into the prince s dressing room without bring seen or the bouse vaa crowded finally it came time toi the awakening of the sleeping beainy the pretty little princess went on and lay down on the gorgeous conch her eyes were closed and her re gulai breathing closely imitated the vl dences of sleep on then came the bogus prince the man from kee so far as looks go mr engel declares that he had the regular prince beaten to a finish he wae a gorgeous and a splendid prince close to him in the wings stood the leal prince and sang his tenor solo nore sweetly than he bad ever sung it before presently tie princess awoke she started up and looked into the face ot the lover whom she had not seen tor nearly a year but she was a thor ough bred once or twice she rubbed her hand across her eyes as it to brush A young man called on mr engel away a mist then she threw herself into his arms with a joyful cry otto my prince she said and then the curtain went down chicago tribune |