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and I love it. I think Chicago’s even more hospitable than New York — and I’ve seen a great deal of New York; the social side, you know: I used to entertain the Astors, the Harrimans, you know.”
Curiosity impelled me to inquire as to how Miss Marbe had entertained the Harrimans and the Astors.
“I danced for them, at their homes; and I was Caruso’s favorite protegee — I wish you could see the letters!” Her brown eyes rolled. “It was really through Society, you know, that I left a private finishing school for the stage. But perhaps you’ve heard?” I regretted that I had been deaf.
“It was at the great Allied Pageant, where I led the Oriental section and danced. Billy Elliott saw me and said, ‘Will you dance for me tomorrow afternoon at the Princess Theater?’ And I said ‘Yes,’ without even knowing that ‘Oh Boy!’ was playing there — I knew nothing about the theaters. I’d hurt my foot, too; but just the same I was there next day and up on the Princess stage dancing for Billy Elliott.
“ ‘I’ll do the best I can,’ I said, while I danced, ‘but you’ll have to make allowances for my sore toe.’
“ ‘You can speak lines, too!’ Billy Elliott cried at that. ‘I’ve got a part for you !’
“ ‘And then and there he gave me the part of Polly Andrews, the second lead, under Anna WTieaton, in ‘Oh Boy!’ — And I wasn’t a bit frightened,” declared the believable girl. “I went into that show as though I’d been born on the stage. True, I walked through a wrong door in an important scene, but I came out all right and smiling; and Anna Wheaton said, ‘If I had your assurance I’d ask no odds of Bernhardt!’ ”
“No chorus, no heartbreak, no ‘backer.’ I just went on the stage and — here I am,” murmured Miss