It required the lapse2 of another day or two before she found courage to question (with laboured indifference) the dilapidated chambermaid who sedulously3 neglected her room for lack of a tip. From this far from garrulous4 source she learned that Matthias had packed up and gone out of town very suddenly, without mentioning where he might be addressed during his absence.
Alone at the window of her tiny cell, Joan stared down at the uninspiring vista5 of back-yards and disconsolately6 recapitulated7 her sorry fortunes.
She was now close upon the end of the fortnight's residence in the hall bedroom; before long she would have to surrender another four dollars—a week's rent in advance. Of the twenty-two dollars she had received from Butch, eight remained in her purse. By dint8 of adhering to a diet largely vegetarian9, she had managed without serious discomfort10 to keep within an expenditure11 of four dollars per week for food. And twice Maizie Dean had saved her the cost of an evening meal by inviting12 her to dine out—at the expense of friends in "the profession." But a continuance of such favours was not to be counted upon; and the problem of living a fourth week away from home was one serious and importunate—always assuming she should fail to secure work before her money ran out. She had no resources in any degree dependable: Butch, even if willing, would probably not be able to extend her another loan; she possessed13 nothing worth pawning14; and Maizie Dean had taken prompt occasion to make it clear that, while she was willing to do anything inexpensive for a budding sister artiste, her tolerance16 would stop short of financial aid.
"Take it from me, dear," she announced soon after their first meeting: "there ain't no people in the world quicker to slip you a live tip than folks in the business; but you gotta make up your mind to pay your own keep. They work too hard for their coin to give up any without a howl you could hear from here to Hollum; and anyway, everybody's always broke in the summer. If you don't land somewhere before your cash runs low, you might just's well make up your mind to slip back into the chain-gang behind the counter."
She had developed—or changed—amazingly in the brief period of her public career. Joan experienced difficulty in recognizing in her the warm-hearted Irish girl who had initiated17 her into the duties of saleswoman in the stocking department. She had hardened more than superficially; she was now as artificial as her make-up, as the hue19 of her ashen20 hair. The world to her was a desert threaded by "circuits," life an arid21 waste of "open time" punctuated22 with oases23 of "booking"; and the fountainhead of temporal power was located in the innermost sanctum of the United Booking Offices.
Sitting on the edge of the bed, she crossed her knees frankly24, sucked thoughtfully at a cigarette, and waved an explanatory hand:
"Here's me and Mame, thinking we was all fixed25 for the nex' six weeks, and then somethin' puts a crimp into our bookin' and we're out for Gawd knows how long—till next Fall, sure. That's unless we want to take a trip over the meal-ticket circuit—fillin' in between filums, yunno. And if we do that it's goin' to crab26 us with the Orpheum people, sure; we'd never get back into the real money class. So we gotta hold onto what little we got until we kin18 see more time headed our way...."
On the other hand, she had been liberal with sage27 and trustworthy counsel as to the best way to go about "breaking into the game." It was thanks to her that Joan was now able to enter a theatrical28 employment agency without fear and trembling, and to back her application for chorus work with a glib29 and unblushing statement that she had had experience "in summer stock out on the Coast." And to the Sisters Dean, likewise, Joan owed her growing acquaintance with the intricate geography of the theatrical districts of New York, her ability to discriminate30 between players "resting" and the average run of Broadway loungers who cluttered31 the shady side of that thoroughfare, from Twenty-fifth Street north to Forty-seventh, those shimmering32 summer afternoons, and her slowly widening circle of nodding acquaintances among the lesser33 peoples of the vaudeville34 world.
As a rule she was awake before anybody else in the establishment of Madame Duprat; not yet could she slough35 the habit of early rising. Her breakfast she was accustomed to get at the same dairy restaurant which had supplied her first meal away from home, and at the same moderate expense—ten cents. By ten o'clock she would be on Broadway, beginning her round of the agencies: a courageous36, shabby figure in the withering37 sun-blast, patient and indomitable through long hours of waiting in crowded anterooms, undiscouraged by the brevity and fruitlessness of the interviews with which her persistence38 was sometimes rewarded, ignoring disappointment with the same studied calm with which she had long since learned to ignore the advances of loafers of the streets.
Her lunches she would purchase wherever she might happen to be at the noon hour—or go without. By five o'clock at the latest—frequently much earlier—she would turn back to West Forty-fifth Street. For dinner she sought again the establishment that provided her breakfast. Her idle hours, both day and evening, she grew accustomed to waste in the double bedroom ("second floor front") occupied by the Dancing Deans.
At such times the soi-disant sisters were rarely without company. They were lively and agreeable creatures, by no means unattractive, and so thoroughly39 theatric in every effect of manner, speech, gesture, person, and thought, that the most case-hardened member of the profession could not but feel at home in their company. Consequently, they were popular with both sexes of their associates. Seldom did a day pass but they entertained several callers, with all of whom they seemed to be on terms of the most candid40 intimacy41.
So Joan grew accustomed to being hailed, whenever she opened the door of the sisters' room, with a formula that varied42 little with repetition:
"Why, if it ain't the kid! Hello, dearie—come right in and stop awhile. Say, lis'n: I want you to shake hands with my friend, Charlie Quard. I guess you know who Charlie is, all right; you must of seen him of'n—played leading juveniles43 with the Spangler Stock, I dunno how long. Charlie, this is my little friend, Miss Thursday."
"In the business, I trust?"
"Goin' to be before long. Just lookin' round."
"Well, I wish you luck, Miss Thursday. This is the rottenest season I ever struck. There's eighty people for every job that blooms. Why, yunno, Maizie, I was talking only yesterday to Percy Williams, and Percy said—"
At about this point Joan would ordinarily be forgotten, and the gossip would rattle44 on through a stifling45 cloud of cigarette smoke, while she sat and listened with grave, if not always comprehending, attention.
And in this manner she met and grew familiar with the personalities46 of an astonishing crew of minor47 vaudeville folk, jugglers, dancers, patter comedians48, balladists, coon shouters, performers on weird49 musical instruments, monologists, and an unclassified host of others, including a liberal sprinkling of plain actors and actresses, the pendulums50 of whose life alternated between small parts in popular-price stock companies and smaller parts in so-called dramatic sketches52 presented in vaudeville houses.
To them all (if they remembered her at all) she was Joan Thursday. The translation from Thursby had been almost inevitable53. Thursday was by far the easier word to remember; Joan soon grew tired of correcting the friends of the Dancing Deans; and accepted the change the more readily since it provided her with a real "stage name", and so, in some measure, identified her with the business to which her every aspiration54 was devoted55.
Of all the population of this new world, perhaps the most prominent in her eyes, aside from the saltatory sisters, was Mr. Quard; or, to give him the fullest benefit of the printed cards which (detaching them dexterously56 from the perforated edges by which they were held in an imitation-leather cover) he distributed regardless of expense:
Mr. Chas. Harborough Quard
Spangler Stock Co. Variety Artists Club
Brooklyn New York
He was a long, rangy animal, robustious, romantical; with a taste in the question of personal decoration that created compelling effects. His face was large, open, boldly featured, his smile genial57, his laugh constant and unctuous58. Something less than thirty, he had been on the stage since childhood; with the training of an actor of the old school, he combined immense vitality59, an ample, dashing air, enviable self-sufficiency, the temperament60 of a tom-cat.
Any competent stage-director could have made much of him; but in an age when managers cast their productions with types who "look" their parts in preference to players who can act them, he found few chances to demonstrate his ability outside the cheaper stock organizations; for the only character he was physically61 fitted to portray62 was that of an actor.
An ill-starred impulse had led him to resign his latest stock connection in order to adventure in vaudeville with a one-act sketch51 written to his order by a hack63 manufacturer of such trash. Its "try-out week" in a provincial64 town had elicited65 no offers from other managers, and in the meantime his place in the stock company had been filled. At present he had a little money saved up, no immediate66 prospects67 of an engagement, good-humour, no illusions whatever.
"It's no good," he informed Miss May Dean on the occasion of their first meeting: "I know where I get off, all right. I can play anything they slip me, but these Broadway guys can't see my kind of actor. Give me a part I can sink my teeth into, and I'll shake it until the house climbs on the seats and howls. But that ain't what they're after, these days."
"The movies'll get you, if you don't watch out," May suggested cheerfully.
"That's right; and I'd be a knock-out in a film gang, too; I'm just their kind. That's what's become of all the old boys who still think Fourteenth Street's the Rialto, yunno. But me, I'm too strong for the noise an audience makes when they like you, or don't: I'd just as lief be hissed68 as get every hand in the house. Don't believe I could stand acting69 for a one-eyed box that didn't say anything but 'clickety-click.' I'd rather travel with the Uncle Tommers—honest'."
He was publicly morose70 for a moment or two. Then he roused: "Cheer up! The worst is yet to come. Maybe I can stick out till next spring, when Grady makes his next all-star revival71. Wonder what he'll exhume72 this time? If it's only something like 'The Silver King,' or 'East Lynne,' I may yet cop out a chance to play to a two-dollar house.... Now, lis'n: I'm going down on the stoop and smoke a cigarette while you girls colour your maps for artificial light. The eats are on me tonight."
"Does that take in my little friend?" demanded Maizie, with a nod toward Joan.
Quard threw Joan a kindly73 glance: "Sure. Now, get a hustle74 on."
"But I can't," Joan protested. "I'm sorry—I'd love to—but I've got nothing fit to wear."
"You look pretty good to me as you stand," returned Quard. "Forget it, kid, and kick in."
"That's right," Maizie insisted. "Besides, I'll lend you a hat and a fresh fichu; you don't need any coat tonight, it's too rotten warm."
"Anyway," Quard said over his shoulder as he left the room, "we ain't booked for Sherry's."
In witness whereof, he introduced the girls to an obscure Italian boarding-house in Twenty-seventh Street, the proprietress of which admitted them only after examination through a grille in the front door. Quard explained to Joan that this precaution was necessary because the house served "red ink" with the meals and without benefit of a liquor license75; hence, only friends could be admitted.
They dined by gas-light in the back-yard, under an awning15 which served the double purpose of excluding observation from the neighbouring dwellings76 and compressing the heated air. Perhaps two dozen tables crowded the enclosure. The male guests by common consent removed their coats and hung them on nails in the fence. The ladies emulated77 by discarding hats and all conventionalities of a nature to impede78 free expression of their temperaments79. Maizie Dean even did without her English accent.
The meal was of a sort only to be consumed with impunity80 by optimists81 and Italians: a heavy soup, and all one could eat of it, spaghetti without end, a minute section of lukewarm blotting82 paper with a remote flavour of chicken, a salad, cheese and coffee, a half-bottle of atrocious red wine. Joan enjoyed it immensely; it has been said that her powers of digestion83 were exceptional.
Everybody seemed to know everybody else. Conversation was free between tables. Personalities were bandied back and forth84 amid intense glee. Quard, consuming enormous quantities of wine, proved himself a general favourite, a leading spirit. After dinner he called for a virulent85 green cordial (which Joan tasted but could not drink) and later returned to the wine. Before the end of the evening he became semi-maudlin, and on leaving exploited a highly humorous inability to walk a straight line. On the corner of Broadway he halted suddenly, bade the three women a slurred86 good night, and without other ceremony swung himself aboard a Broadway car.
His rudeness excited no comment from the Dancing Deans. They walked all the way home with Joan, unescorted. Joan was surprised to see by the clock in the Herald87 building that it was almost eleven. She thought she had never known an evening to pass so quickly and so pleasantly. What little wine she had consumed seemed to have affected88 her not at all, beyond rendering89 her keenly appreciative90 of this novel experience.
But she suffered the next morning from a slight and, to her, inexplicable91 headache.
It was four or five days later before she saw Quard again. He called early in the evening—but after dinner—and sat chatting amiably92 with the women for upwards93 of an hour before the real purpose of his visit transpired94.
"I was talking to Reinhardt about an idea I got for a sketch, day before yesterday," he announced suddenly. "But he wanted fifty cash before he'd touch it, and seeing as it was him slipped me that other lemon, I told him merrily where he could go and went home and wrote it myself."
"You didn't!" Maizie exclaimed admiringly.
"You bet your life I did," the actor asseverated95 with conscious modesty96. "Why not? It's no great stunt97, writing; and besides it's all old junk I've done before, only hashed up a new way. All I had to do was to cop lines out of shows I've played in—sure-fire stuff, yunno—and write in names of characters. That's nothing."
"Oh, no, nothin' at all!" commented May Dean from her perch98 on the window-sill. "What's an author, anyway? Eight to five, girls, he's got the 'script on him. Get ready to duck."
"Wel-l!" Quard laughed—"you beat me to it, all right." He produced a sheaf of folded papers, smoothing them out upon his knee. "I just thought I'd see what you thought of it. If it's any good I'm going to read it to Schneider tomorrow and see what he'll offer me."
"Who's Schneider?" Maizie asked blankly.
"Agent for the film circuits," Quard replied.
"You don't mean you're thinkin' of fallin' for the four-a-day!"
"I'll try anything once; I'm not too proud to earn my bed and board in the dull season, anyhow. Besides, this thing would break into the Orpheum Circuit only over the dead body of Martin Beck. I'm no Georgie Cohan. But it oughta sandwich in between the pictures without anybody asking his ten cents back."
"You've got your nerve with you," Maizie commented darkly.
"Let him rave," May advised, exhaling99 cigarette smoke voluminously. "Shoot!"
Taking this for consent, Quard rattled100 the sheets of paper, tilted101 back his chair, and began to read.
His voice was flexible and sonorous102; instinctively103 he declaimed the lines, extracting from each its full value. Now and again he lent emphasis to a phrase with an eloquent104 hand. But to Joan the composition was quite incoherent. She attended with wonder and a feeling of impatience105 because of her inability to understand what Quard seemed to relish106 with so much enthusiasm. It was, in fact, a worthless farrago of nonsense. None the less the two dancers laughed at encouraging intervals107.
Flattered, Quard rose, removed his coat and began to act the lines, striding up and down the narrow space between the foot of the double-bed and the marble mantelpiece. The night was hot; a single gas-jet illumined the centre of the room; Quard perspired108 freely. For all that, his stenographic109 acting gave the thing some slight accent of humanity. It became a trifle, a mere110 trifle, more intelligible111.
Seated on the window-sill, en profile to the room, her slight, wiry body attired112 sketchily113 in a kimono and short skirt, May Dean swung her legs and stared out into the darkness, an ironic114 smile hovering115 round her thin lips. Maizie lounged on the bed, tracing a meaningless pattern on the counterpane with a thin and rouge-stained forefinger116. Joan occupied the only chair other than that at the disposal of the actor. She was very tired, and her attention wandered, even though Quard managed to draw it back now and then by some vivid trick of elocution or gesture. Vaguely117 sensitive to the magnetism118 of the man, her thoughts were occupied more with indefinite speculations119 about his personality than with the semi-plagiaristic and wholly commonplace concoction120 of cheap sentiment and tried-and-true "gags" which he professed121 to have written.
Physically he attracted her. Divested122 of his coat, his chest swelled123 impressively beneath a pink-striped silk shirt. When he lifted an arm, the clinging sleeve moulded itself to an admirable biceps. As he strode to and fro the stuff of his thin summer trousers shaped itself to legs that might have proved enviable to Sir Willoughby Patterne himself. His wide-lipped mouth disclosed an excellent outfit124 of large, white, strong teeth. His jet-black hair curled engagingly at his temples and over his generous pink ears. She liked his big, muscular, mobile hands....
She started suddenly, to discover that he had concluded and was facing her with an expectant expression, and sat up and smiled faintly, with embarrassment125, trying to remember what it had all been about.
From the window, May Dean drawled languidly: "Is that the finish?"
Quard waved an arm. "Curtain!" he said; and sat down.
"My Gawd!" observed May thoughtfully.
He laughed uncomfortably: "As bad as all that?"
"It'd make a wonderful chaser," Maizie commented without lifting her eyes from the counterpane.
Quard turned desperately126 back to Joan. "What do you think of it, Miss Thursday?"
"I think so too," she said with all the animation127 she could muster128. The other women laughed aloud. She flushed and added: "I mean, I think it's wonderful. I don't know what a chaser is."
"A chaser, dearie," Maizie explained in tones of acute commiseration129, "is an act put on in the continuous houses to chase out the chair-warmers and make room for more."
"Well," said Quard, shuffling130 the manuscript, "I don't care if it is a chaser, so long as it stakes me to the eats till something else turns up."
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