Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1928, Page 35

sobdbbbdbd bbbttt bbbt bbb bbb b b bbb bbb bbb bbb bbb b bbb ONE MAN WIFE (Copyright, 1928, b ddobdodobdddddd bbb & __(Continued from Yesterday's Star.) Yconne Ross has been left alone while ter husband takes a three-month vacation irip. Yvonne before her marriage was & ‘rem‘h peasant girl whom Richard married eciuse he disapproved of modern American wornen, in particular Anne Lovelace, an old flame. of whom Yvonne is now Jjealous. Richard meade Yvonne promise when they were married that she would not change in any particular nor attempt to get an edu- cation. Unknown to him, she has educated herself and has discovered that she pos- sesses authentic talent for dancing. Just self she will not_dance again nor do any- thing of which Richard does not approve. In the last chapter, Yvonne has found an desk. She is bitterly jealous. 1In the midst of her unhappiness a ring at the door takes her to reet her friend. Mrs Osden: her Broadway theatrical magnate, Mr. Drake. INSTALLMENT XIIL ¢ OU have been neglecting us, gravely, but without re- proach. “I have been very busy— “Yvonne, dear, we have been talking of you, I and these other two good friends, and we have come to make one your dancing. I have told these gentle- men your story, and they have come with me today to add their pleadings you will let us, to go to your husband ourselves and to explain to him your great gift.” “Gone!” the three callers echoed the word. “Yes, last week, for three months, to “Gone and left you here alone!” Mrs. ©Ogden tried not to sound too indignant. “I wished to stay,” Yvonne said, de- I am very happy here by myself. See, Richard gave me this little dog before he left.” She held Dicky up to be Mrs. Ogden cast a significant look at the two men. “Suppose I ask these two good friends of yours to leave Yvonne, They had simply come to urge on you the acceptance of the con- tract offered you two weeks ago. They Ross, if necessary. But now that he is gone, they cannot, of course, see him.” ~I'hope to see you soon in the studio, before he leaves Yvonne has promised her- old picture of Anne Lovelace in Richard's dancing _teacher. Romanevski, and & Yvonne,” Mrs, Ogden said with my home,” Yvonne faltered. more attempt to get you to go on with to mine. We are willing, anxipus, if “Richard is gone,” Yvonne said dully. wvisit mines and talk with engineers.” fending Richard. “I am not afraid and admired. now, and you and I have a little talk, wanted your permission to speak to Mr. Mile. Yvonne,” ‘said M. Romanevskl, bowing over her hand. “And I hope to see you soon on Broad- way,” Mr. Drake said, shaking hands heartily. Left alone the two women smiled at each other, and then Yvonne was in her friend’s arms sobbing as though her heart were broken. Mrs. Ogden led her to the davenport and sat beside her, soothing her, and waiting for the wider sobbing to cease. “There, there, child,” she kept saying. “Everything is going to be all right. There, there.” Dickey jumped up beside them and nosed against Yvonne, who presently cuddled him in her lap and dried her tears. “Now, then,” said Mrs. Ogden briskly. “Tell me all about it.” “There is so little to tell. Richard wasn't feeling well and needed a rest. So he went to Denver and will be gone | j, three months. He offered to send me ‘home to France or to have a woman to stay with me. But I preferred to be alone.” “He didn’t offer to take you with him though,” Mrs. Ogden said shrewdly. “No.” Yvonne answered sadly. “And he never He does not want me changed. If'be knew what I had done he would never forgive me. As long as T am the Yvonne he married he will be faithful to me, and will notice me now and then. For th: new Yvonne he would have no use.at all.” “You may be right, Yvonne—but what of yourself? Can you stand living here this way, buried,” starved, year after year?” Yvonne shrugged. “If you will do thjs,” Mrs. Ogden said, *Richard’s absence creates a wonderful opportunity for you. You can sign a contract to appear in this new show of Mr. Drake’s for three months and at the end of that time leave and return to your old life.” ‘Yvonne considered. “You need not leave this house unless you wish,” Mrs. Ogden went on. “I have an old negro maid I can send over to you. She will do the housework and keep your clothes in order and be com- pany for you, too, ~Come, Yvonne, snatch this piece of life. It belcugs to you. Richard is enjoying himself, de- d upon that.” A swift thought of Anne Lovelace stabbed Yvonne. She knew the idea Was preposterous, but none the less it influenced her decision. “If you are sure I can dance just for the time Richard is away, and then #eturn to my house, I will do it.” “Of course you can” Mrs. Ogden cried. “Oh, Yvonne, you will never re- t this. Come, we must go at once to studio.” M. Romanevski knew the battle was | won when he saw Yvonne and Mrs. | Ogden coming in the door. | “She will dance—the angel!” he cried, seizing Yvonne's hands and kiss- | ing her on both cheeks. “Come to| practice. You have but three days in| which to be ready, costumes, dances, everything.” ! Mr. Drake was more practical. He | led Yvonne to the small office and| pulled out contracts. Yvonne was| not without practical s jess. Mr. Drake wanted to have \gfe contracts read for appearances e months, daily except Sunday, from that day. “But no,” said Yvonne. “Supposing my husband returns before that time. No, it must read thus, “Contracts to appear daily save Sunday until the re- turn of her husband, Mr. Richard Ross!” “That's the craziest clause I ever| ut in a contract,” Mr.gPrake grum- glcd. But he put it.in, and Yvonne read it slowly and noddeisher head over it. Then there was the mattgr of a pame. M. Romanevski wanled her billed as “un’ angel.” Mrs. Ogden sug- gested that she appear on tigfprogram as “Yvonne” Mr. Draketetuggested | Toftnette. But Yvonne hersex$ettied the question firmly. < “I shall appear simply us Madmoiselle. fThat will preserve my identity and fur- nish thought for those who may be in- terested in my dancing.” “The girl's right,” Mr. Drake declar- ed. “People love a mystery and I'll} make the most of this one.” He wrote | in a large firm hand. “Dances by | Mademoiselle.” | “And now for rehearsals!” cried the pallet master. “I hope you are not too stiff, Mademoiselle.” «I have been working too hard to e stiff,” Yvonne said, laughing. “I| cleaned my great beast {)1 a house all this week, and stooping and twisting | and reaching and ben®ng, all those‘ are necessary—in house cleaning as in wancing.” | M. Romanevski put her through some | simple exercises, then the more difficult | ones. She followed easily, enjoying his: amazement that she had not fallen| back noticeably in her work. | “You are a marvel,” he declared.| #Now for real work.” | The rest of the afternoon flew by.| $Mrs. Ogden and Mr. Drake were deep in consultation over costumes. Sev-| eral times they came to watch Yvonne | working with M. Romanevski Mr. | Drake was well satisfied with what he saw and left late in the afternoon to | begin his advertising campaign. | The ballet master and Mrs. Ogden | Btood talking while Yvonne dressed. | “And will she return to her stupid | clod of a husband at the end of three | months?” he asked. “It 18 hard to say. She may be- { come 50 enthralled by the life she will S FEFFFFRF R R R R R R R R R R | Zealand now owns an automobile. BY BARBARA WEBB by Public Ledger.) lead as a great dancer that she will be able to put him out of her life, and she may not. Don’t forget that she loves him with all the devotion of a singularly pure and warm-hearted girl. He is the only man she has ever known outside of her native village {gle}x‘xds and he appears very wonderful oy 3 “If she is the artist she will give him up—without one regret.” M. Ro- manevski blew an imaginary piece of thistle from his hand as he spoke. “If she is the artist she will feel more deeply than the rest of us,” Mrs. Og- den _corrected. “Perhaps you are right, madame,” said the master with a sigh. The following day Yvonne had her first rehearsal on the stage. It seemed an immense affair to her, and the black, empty auditorium beyond seemed to yawn in her face indifferently. Her first nervousness passed; she acquitted herself well. “Give me three minutes of music,” she said, “and I can dance and forget all else.” Mr. Drake said thoughtfully: “Sup- pose we darken both the stage and the house completely for a full minute; there will be music as the lights are going down. It will grow louder and at the end of a full two minutes there will be a steady glow on the stage and the music will have grown louder. That gives you a full two minutes and a half of music to start your dance.” They tried the plan. Yvonne liked it. “I will be already dancing when the eyes of the audience catch me,” she said. “Exactly. Never think of your audi- ence, Let them think of you,” pro- claimed M. Romanevski. The matter of costumes interested them all. Yvonne's taste was found to be perfect. She knew the effects she wanted to obtain and worked for them in every detail. Her first dance was to be symbolic of a virgin's greeting to the Spring. For it she chose an all-white cos- tume. She would dance in bare feet. Around her head was to be bound a fillet of pond lilies. “The only dancer on Broadway who hasn't bobbed her hair,” Mr, Drake observed astutely and pressntly took the public into his confidence. at night the theater-going public kmew a new dancer was to be seen at the opening of “Fast and Furious” the following Monday, and that she was to be known only as Mademoiselle, and that she danced with long hair. Yvonne planned a fire dance for her second number. A sheath of scarlet silk, very scant, very formfitting, was made for that. Ingenious lighting provided tongues of flame to follow her about the stage. To those who watched her at the dress rehearsal throwing her- self passionately into her dance as though she were an all-consuming flame, she seemed to be the very spirit of fire. For her third number, which would come at the close of the second act, she elected a quaint, mincing old-fash- ioned dance, in which she wore a hoop- ed skirt that billowed and dipped as she moved. There was something ro- quish about this dance, and the con- trast between her formal old-fashioned costume and her quick steps was amus- 2. “You see,” quoth M. Romanevski, “she has the sense of comedy, too. All great artists have.” Mrs. Ogden had insisted on send- ing Lottie, the maid she had spoken of, to Yvonne, At first Yvonne pro- tested, but when she found how ‘welk Lottie fitted into. her life she welcom- ed her, and wdz,begmg an abject was the constant rehearsing, costume selection, practice in make-up, to oc- cupy her away from home. Yvonne THE , EVENING STAR, . WASHINGTON, .D., C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1928. 35 b L) Phonograph $39 was too busy to suffer greatly in these five days. # ‘The evening before the opening she was to spend quietly at home. Every her to go to bed early and to sleep long and soundly. 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