Show - ' - - : : s & ? 0 'Irbe Sunday Morning Itt F - er::?:: " c--- :T 111 ( i it r r - - 4 - 4 -- I--- i --- 1‘ - ? i 1 --- 7 4‘ -- "fie-loP - Zit made dow What would I do if Ted should stop loving me stop wanting me for his partner? I'd be entirely alone not a soul in the world to turn to Inwardly she gave a sarcastic shrug Well I'm going to learn to be a chorus girl in Kingston that'll be something She turned to Ted "I sure hope the chorus doesn't do the usual tap and jazz or I'll be in a pickle for sure It'll take me more than three days to pick up that trash" cast-"Tal- We've got to "Oh no It's a ballet and I understand from Goldberg that it's quite artistic but then he books it" "Know anything about Jane Empy's work?" "No" Ted returned "She can't be too bad heading her own company the way she does but of course she owns the act that might account for "She does!" Rita exclaimed "So we're working for Jane Empy and not well I I know but were we care if wouldn't going to do Sid Goldberg? Well well Worse and our own routine together But you more me of it" else and with somebody dancing "What do you mean by that?" I'm telling you Ted In the line-u- p "On skip it" Rita replied It won't work" Jane Empy no sooner opened her "Look Rita We can practice every dressing room door in answer to their day and keep up in our routines and knock than she said: "Why you're save a little to come back and try the adagio team of 'Ted and Rita' our own luck again" feain was written aren't every you? I saw you work at the Disgust Silver Slipper Good grief I don't ture of Rita's pretty face "You're gowant a team I want a partner for ing to feel a lot like rehearsing while Jane Empy around myself and a girl for the group Goldyou're:tossing nuts he knows the act three or four shows a day And you berg must be " Inside needn't put tip a front with me You "I beg your pardon" Ted interknow the salary is peanuts" Ted was burning "Have you got - rupted "We understand what you want any better ideas?" "Are you two splitting as a team?" "Yes Why don't we stay and work " Rita responded quickly "Only temnight clubs for a "Because there aren't any stupid porarily" Ted looked daggers at her but she Sol has scoured the town Honest tO out went right on speaking "The act we was God Rita if there any way were working in together closed and of it we wouldn't do it I want to get in a show and try to get ahead so we bookings around New York are scarce now and Goldberg said you can get married Just as nauch as you right " needed do but right now we've got to eat "Yeah that's true all right but I so go on and pack up like a good kid" know Goldberg Anything to keep Rita and Ted were to join "Jane in the act going so he can collect his and company" Kingston Empy where the act was playing for the lously little 10 per cent You'd think he could have found an unattached last half rehearse between shows man running around somewhere in then open with the company in RochNew York" ester the Monday following ' It was "After all" Ted replied "Most men raining hard when they left who do adagio have a partner or else New York the next morning Rita they wouldn't be doing it" usually enjoyed trips upstate for she "Oh I'm not blaming you kids but loved watching the Hudson its boats look at my side of it I work my fool and skyline Now all was hidden behead off with a nartner and no sooner hind sheet of mist and rain Fog horns sounded frequently hauntingget the act running smooth and something happens Take this fellow ly ominously A torrent of rain rolled who's leaving the act Saturday he's down the train windows do been working for me a year now and Rita's heart was heavy It wak I think everything's okeh and here hard for her to restrain a torrent of all the time he's in love with one of tears that would match the storm the kids in the chorus and on the sly outside She was wondering if Ted even half realized how much she has been teaching her So now they think they can do better together I really loved him Still he knew how sure get the breaks no fooling" she had defied her only living relative Rita's spirits rose She spoke lightto become his dancing partner Rita's aunt had completely washed her heartedly "If "you'd rather wire Goldhands of her when she found out Rita berg that '"No it's too late rve got to have had become a professional dancer Not that Rita felt any loss of her somebody to open with in Rochester aunt's love that was scrrnething she Mvnday The show'll be on in a few minutes so you might as well go out had never possessed Her aunt had front and watch the act" always Made her feel greatly inTed and Rita started out of theferior made her feel that it was only In a moment of utmost weakness that door as Jane called after them "Bet:ter come backstage again after you've her brother an aristocratic Englishseen it The sooner we start reheareman had married Rita's beautiful Italian Mother It was from her ing the better" Italian ancestry that Rita had inIt proved hard as Rita said it k would for her and Ted to find time hair which herited her and energy to rehearse together He framed her lovely dark oval face found it vastly more difficult to work From the same source came her viwith Jane for she was heavier Her vacity that aliveness of body and feature that transmitted across the dancing was literally hard work for she must struggle to accomplish what footlights her great love of her work Rita did with ease and grace Rita's Though Rita was small in stature own speed in preparation for a lift with tiny hands and feet she was would carry her to position and her built on long supple well curved lines not at all with the stockiness beautifully proportioned body made It possible for her to stop suddenly in usual to a small girl Her father's nature had contributed the stubborn perfect balance But Ted felt the will to achieve entire weight of Jane each lift he made with her Even after the act Rita glanced at Ted who sat starwas going fairly well again Jane ing gloomily ahead his mood apwanted to be forever rehearsing The parently matching herd own Shewinmore he worked with her the more turned again to the "Yes - V 0 i - V IC v a - le MAKE THE and ' v v 141) Ati I - ' ! - - (04144 i - 7' - flu? battle: - f They help to put machine guns in bandsgas' 4tIlf itatskt in their packt 's111 They'll supply theta with tool water when he's thirsty '' V with fuel and blankets when he's cold —with 3 solid '' totals every day V ' build V the that will our tce They'll ships tlatioes carry ''' Tokyo—the teaks that will tarty our gag to Berlin- V ' are t"kid V ti:S the safest investtalent- in the world —an investment that pays you back V for every $3 at the end of 10 years V - V' V'" - V-t '3 ori - War-nom:- - '' - - IV r' : ' - Ve:S4 " V' Nr- -In D BUY V 'ilarist v' - -- ''' - I BONDS-TOD111- - - tr ' - Published its cooperation with the Drug Costrsetic ond' Allied Industries by s ! THOS LEEM1NG & CO INC- - Magrufacturers of Rat me - -- - -'''''- r - - V v v V $ nme-Ga- y V V WV VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV 1 a ' 0 - -- and that no one can tell just where the limit is The determination of the amount becoznes almost intuitive to the practiced writer There was also a thing which we missed in the dialog which we have not called our writers' attention to for some months—the use of body language By body language we mean tlf71 - -1 4 -- i'ir - i -- 1 i - t j the - naarseos 'Tye dg rweoaut idanbde pfrou Fy r'"1 "777 v 4 if it:‘-k:- ' cvec'‘''‘ tpi4i 'lL of the' becii one t xl "77 717 ' L 1so i- '- - ! ' E t ' - f t - - ' - - f ' - i i I -- - t 1 1- - P? ----7 I t"4' t t t Li ct't - a - 1 4 $ 6141301S! 1 r -- r v T ' 4-- 0 ? - I ) ' I ' '- 0 - ' ' "-- ' i - -- :: I I i i- I z ! 1 I t i then - - I - - -- 4 1 - I - 7 - I - - S 4 ' : e- 4 - r' D r - - A - - -- T 5 Is THIS YOU? Wanting to do ULT tired draggy these war days more than ever in the ambition suramon —but unable to way you're probably the Well Ics3Akllat your accustomed ittambgi erts living Working turned upside-dow- n hours- - Sleeping when hours different up as for eating—picking attention you can- - And no paying meals on And this can lead meals balanced to in the diet to a lack of "bulk" ) : --1-)1- '':::: t I --: lit - " o - VV - t t I - I F1IT 1IS --t T le this is you—if your meals ha vol— been lacking in T t suffering from crx 1(7–S6–"1"N4 —'::": ft' "bulk"—you're ' 1:: - tion—caused by lack of "bulk" constipain the diet cathartics and purges will bring you only relief They won't get at the temporary cause of such constipation But a delicious breakfast cereal— '"-- - —medicinal i KELLOGG'S 'i 3''' - '''' 4) s N :' :7 -' - - - -' 01 -7 i 1 : - t i - ': i - t I - -r4 ': - ' 4--- ---- I-- - - ''''' : 1 ' f' '''''''''''' - t 1': S ---- '1 L- : :::: -: 7-‘- lli ' - ' - 't---- - -- - - i - : s :' '''''-:::-:'-:- r- zs 02 :111k---- -- miloothi-- t: '''' ' cy: '' : ss -- '' :!' probably that common ailment constipation And for this kind of f k : — - i t i - '--' : i '''''' t - - t ( : - t ' 1N Y-7'4- f te v 1 - 1 ' ' 0 C '4'1 s I ''''''4: eg' - '''' ' I c -:- 't -'4 - - -a -- t 1' 0- -- ) A - Z' ik ! - constipation 3-- ts- ' ' ''-"1- A - her and dcome and ask her forgivednels in- Ted was shaving when the bellboy brought up the "Give notice Audition amiranItgedreafod Gessler show Night club to fill in wait Sol Irving" Ted's hand shook so he nicked himself while finishing his shave "Here this might be our real chance" he thought "and what am I going to do? I can't tell what the little spitfire'll do if I Show it to her Gee I'd hate to wire SC1 we'd I'll show it tO Rita that's what split i do If she gets the least bit huffy I'll it's the end absolutely curtains But how cQuld she? She wants ' this chance as much as I do Its all'we used to talk about plan for ever since we first danced together' So I'll show it to her and if Atka acts the least bit out of the Qway I'll— well I'll take Jane's offer and I'lll save my money and open a 4:11ne'ing ' school Yep I'll get out of the show business that's what rzi do With- ' daily t - " - ALL-BRA- N WELLOGG'S EATEN at tht cause of corrects it! of "bulle—and due to lacka cereal or in muffins—for Eat it as or at any other tirne of day— you too breakfast Of water and "I drink plenty Regu1 s— Your grrocer will "join the love its grand ex'turil Try it! Made has t Mich crunchy its Creek taSte' in Battle 'Kellogg's by - ' IS - ) ' 4 I k' '''''1 —0 7 t ' - sr $--: 4 - - - TO BOI HERE'S WHAT go N 114o hal- - out Rita for a partner there wouldn't be any point in sticking with it"-- Having settled his entire future Ted decided to fortify 4i1msell --with some breakfast before seeing Rita He went down to the coffee shop Rita was sitting at a table reading the morning paper Ted hesitated several seconds drew in a deep - 4 story writer makes the reader stop and study he has erred badly and harmed his story in that much r:-- 7--7- r---- - 'eur-- - f t — i: - t - 1 i r - ALL-BRA- N 'ii - - 1 lo 0 - ' k '' - - : : " - ! !- irp -- sty 00 op t - - - '": '7 '''''''''2 ' t''-- -: " - - - --- - - - ' - i- Li ' '''- - ' :7:-- ---'- - - — f AA - 1r 7 ti t V C Coe ''''''-krq0- ' - ' '' t t t ' n is4 'a r l!'-- 'P'::r:-- '''Pri 1&2 '‘' 4'4' --17' - - - ''-'- -' tt : - ' " - - - - - - -- - -- - '' - ' 4 410e - 1 -- - -- ' r'SSet - a----' ' - - - : ' :i ' ' f -I -'I 47 41 ' -lb ZIEGLSTLIES) 117 i 41 TIADE-MAS- E '''' -- ' IPAtrAP ' t4:-1 -- :- -- -- Cor -- 1111066 - A- comma -7 It 41"4 4:21114(i 4 IL 0 ar ‘ - - ' ' 0 — - - t 7 -- -- It-t 'i'''' :' -- - '4' '''- - 4 w ' "- -- r t' Ie -' '4 "'''' 0 - - - 4 314244 ma - ( - - - c"- c - ' e- N t - 't :-- '''- -- - ' pc C--' L ' 4 e-- -' - - 0 - 0--- - Q - - - 4- J ' ' - 4'' '''''''-''- 14 7" 40c444i1 q '' - "4:'0$ 4oes:(n----- - - - - 1a ''- - s'' $k'dt''''' 4 ' - st wo---- 00 i ' -- 4 ' --- v-- 0-0 ' 144 - - - 0 ' ee' 180 4 ' i "'' - - 41' --- - 2 ' f' e- - e 1 - -- -- - ALL-BRA- -- ----- - Tomorrow morning—and very morning— serve delicious tempting KELLOGG'S for breakfast: 0 ' I tmt VAA Il 1 ' ' 40' i ti' " ---'- 1- lkso‘WL li - - ab - to' A - - - ota io) - - t‘ 'F' '1 : -- "Oh no she wasn't trying to get you away from me was she ? Not much!" The bitterness in her voice further irritated Ted "Have I ever let you down Rita?" he almost shouted "No but "But what? Oh hell maybe when you come to your senses we can talk Get your duds and go on back to your own room It's time for the show to Ibeeri '' - 1 v - i ' '2 V V 0 - buy U S War Bonds! And keep on buying diem! Here la what War Bonds do for the men who are fighting - v V- ev4 I v ' r" 1 s - - v v v v v v - r - -" --:0- - ya' heard?" In the weeks that followed two more miserable people never existed For three years neither had had any plans that had not included the other Now they made every effort to avoid each other Rita ached with loneliness and a sense of guilt She felt d It was her jealous nature that had brought this upon herself Each sleepless night she would plan how the very next day she would go to Ted and ask to be forgiven Daylight robbed her of courage She practiced a great deal herself with the thought cthoanimaitin least she would be able to earn her living in the chorus No she'd V V V V V V V V V V V V V - 1 - Li - d 1 - v fir - - 5 - 7 f swinging of limbs- the wiggling of the fingers the noddings of the head' and the making of faces laughable or otherwise that everyone except the diimb cluck makes when he is speakino and at most of the times he is speaking the amount varying with the character and intensity of the speaker Strangely enough some of our really good story writers lose sight of the fact that there is such a language and use none of it thereby missing heights of vividness that would help their stories even at times losing meanings which could not otherwise be attained Amateurs do very little of this and often bungle it when they try it To be really good and to give an added worth to the story here again there has to be just the right amount for too much calls attention to its presence which tends to ruin its effect Since this body language is if it is natural in actual life itself entirely unconscious its presence when put in with a speech should never attract attention to itself for itself but always should only reinforce and emphasize what the speaker has said It should therefore be not so striking that the reader would pause to consider it it should fit in perfectly with the speech and the occasion for the speech It' is toward this perfection that all writers should work Also the body language should be used considerably fewer times in a story than it would be in life for it is enough try as one will to striking - make it seem unconscious that an overplus of it will always call attention to itself for itself like a wart on the end of one's nose The art is in using some body language in each story and in not having so much of it and that much not so striking that the readers will stop in the story to look up the variousplaces it is used and study them Any time that a : -- s 17 the unconscious ts - ! A7 - e ‘ "I won't do it" Rita sat down with an air of finality"Yes you Will If you don'tgive a damn about your reputation I do" He took her firmly by the shoulders and pushed her into the hall She wrenched file of his grasp and with all the' strength:InALec slender body slapped his face' Bursting into hysterical tears she ran' down the hall Ted jerked her costumes from the hooks threw them out into the hall BO slammed the door with vengeance "Quiet!" yelled the stage manager 'What the hell's goin' on up there Were puttin' on a show or hadn't V " - without the sugar in it unpalatable to 1' ' ' most people Then ''447 2 I if one begins the ad- ‘' tI dition of the sugar a ' z i little at a time it i becomes better test- -1 ' - : I ing up to a certain r A ' I point and from then I ' on the sweetness I 1''' I a makes it and more - to more unpleasing Prot Quivey people according to their individual taste until it reaches a place where nobody likes it The figure will hold for all degrees of dialog in the story Very few people enjoy one wholly without it and when one increases the amount of it little by little there comes a place at which the large majority agree that it is and from then on the adjust right: ditions make it more and more distasteful until a story wholly of dialog as was occasionally written just after 1900 will find practically nobody who' likes it From point of view the answer to the anxious writer is that there is a undefined percentage of dialog depending upon the story of course which makes each story in its turn most pleasing to the greatest number of its readers perhaps for all stories one might guess it to be around 30 per cent of the whole volume Be warned that the amount varies with each new story written 'k r 7: qv start" vivvvvvvvvvvvvvVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV 4 - it"A--v to IF - - - - 1 on hottt quick-tempere- v 6 ? A word with her" rain-covere- I I I c4c''' -- two-yea- blue-blac- t N-- Iv ' - - 11 - te CI s di---"---- e t f ec i4 j - -- 7 ' "Well then just wait till I do before you accuse me of it If you must cut in the know Jane offered me r contract act if I'd sign - 4 but -- '' body was tense uni -- Mardi 14 1943 4::::----1"-r----- Excellent things can be forced to the extremity that ' they become faults This is what it seems to us ol has happened with r-oIi: the dialog in this c story A story with- out some dialog in :5 it is like lemonade "No of course we're not So as long as we live our lives are going to be'full of ifs Every new job is a gamble Tomorrow night may make us stars or else put us back warming the chair in agents' offices "But Ted its no different than—" 'If we wait to see whether the show is a success or not and it does flop we won't have nerve enough to get married now" Rita opened her mouth to speak' but Ted wouldn't give her a chance "When we're married we'll be more sure of each-oth- er and it's bound to show in our work Besides" he grinned mischievously "I don't relish throwing you out of dressing rooms or getting my face slapped either" He drew a deep breath "Well what do you say?" "All I wanted to say was what are we waiting for?" she's wrong" "Listen Rita" "Listen nothing! I knew that day on the train when you told me-sh- e owned the act it would be like this She'll find out soon enough I won't give you up without a fight" "Maybe I have a little to say about whos giving up who" Ted was beginning to boil "Jane came in here to talk business" "Says you" "Rita! Have I ever lied to you? Well have I?" Every muscle in his f ! 1 ti 4 --70) P -' 1 Rita and Ted walked into "Ye Eat Shoppe" found an empty table and dropped wearily into the seats "I'll -bet" Rita remarked while this is the last reading- the menu square meal we get before the show opens I'll bet when we go back in for the dress rehearsal tonight we'll be lucky if we get out again before show time tomorrow night Gosh Ted it doesn't seem possible does it? Us with a featured spot Like having dreams come true for sure Now if only the show is a hit we ought to start going places What are you going to have? I'll settle for the pork chops" Ted was staring at the menu but not reading it Suddenly he looked up at Rita "Let's go get married" "Are you crazy?" "No I mean it We've time to make city hall if we go now" ''But but Ted what if the show flops?" "If the show flops are we quitting show business?" Ted asked sharply "Well no I guess—" "Get lost little girl?" A sarcastic grin accompanied the question Rita threw the file on the table and stood up facing him "No I didn't get lost I just decided it was high time I let Jane Empy and everybody else know that you belong to me From here on I'm dressing in here" "Oh no you're not" "Oh yes I am She thinks because you're working for her she owns you body and soul Well I'll show her I 1 -- - n- tr I glistening tears "Well what are we waiting for?" Her voice was husky ts -- r breath walked quickly across the room and slipped the telegram on top of the paper An endless moment passed before Rita raised her head Her black eyes weare filled with wonder excitement an d two large he realized that it was through sheer strength of body and will that Jane had become a dancer at all After the first show one afternoon Rita started down the hall to Ted's dressing room just in time to see Jane go in and close the door behind her She took long furious strides toward his room but stopped just short of putting her hand on the knob She turned and walked slowly back to the chorus dressing room turning her head every few steps to look back at Ted's door She got a chair and sat in the doorway eyeing her watch every few seconds It was 34 minutes 'before Jane came out and went downstairs What on earth could Jane Empy have to say behind closed doors that took almost half an hour! Rita was beside herself Before slhe could start again to Ted's room he came to the acrobats' out and walked - down theroom at end of the hall She opened her mouth to call to him but closed it again without uttering a sound An hour later when Ted returned to get ready for the second show Rita chair pushed back feet resting on the corner of his dressing table was idly filing her fingernails Her make-u- p was neatly arranged on a towel on one end of the table Her costumes were neatly hung next to his With one swift glance Ted took - ''t t1" I? YaltaI Ill Aii'lArlyf " "Well I don't like the "Do you suppose I like it?" Ted asked "But we shouldn't leave New York Ted We'll never get a break if we're k not here when the shows start live" - 7' --- - start casting?' Rita ! k - As soon as Rita caught sight of Ted's face when he came Into the hotel lobby she knew Sol Irving their own theatrical agent had nothing better to offer them than the Goldberg office She followed him into the elevator and up to his room Neither one spoke on the way When Ted closed the door Rita said: "Sol hasn't anything" "Nope Says the best thing we can do is join the act booked out of the Goldberg office until more shows sense rp I lit) Nc19 - t N di 1 oillt 44k 1 I ! ' i '14 v v t: - i f ‘ ti p1 t 1 r PI r'r fedee''' dr''''C''''--vit --- ---- C7) 01 ' : rk tr 5alt gnkt Zr'ibunt - 4 |