LIGHT LITERATURE.

Southland Times, Issue 21729, 15 June 1932, Page 8

LIGHT LITERATURE.

The Adventures of Sadie Sopp. Episode VIH. Synopsis What Has Gone Before Sadie leaves Wood Bush for Hollywood where she hrs to undergo a test for the talkies Now Reid On. Well after the test for terror Sadie was asked to burst into tears and by a strange coincidence a sandfly alighted in her eye causing both to water profusely. After the sandfly had had his fill by another strange coincidence she was asked to laugh infectiously and she thought about an occasion when Strawberry had got her head jammed in the milk bucket to the horror of Old Jean whereupon her face split from ear to ear in one of those grins so peculiar to the modem miss. Well she was next asked to say I saw a Mississippi miss's stingy sixpence and she mouthed the words so well that even Caponey’s upper lip softened with delight. So Sadie’s audition proved a great success. Gosh if only they knew about this in Wood Bush thought Sadie fancy seeing and hearing myself on the screen.

Of course Chick was in an ecstasy of delight and showed his immeasurable joy by pulling his brace of saxophones out of his hip pocket and tootling a few bars of Wiedoft’s Saxophun. The next thing was the question of salary. Caponey asked Sadie what she wanted a week and Sadie said Two pounds so Caponey said How much is that and Chick said Fifty dollars though what sort of an end he expected to come to after a lie like that I don’t know.

Caponey was so surprised at this small sum that he said I’ll give yah a hundred bucks a week but Sadie said that was too much so Caponey was so delighted he told her he’d give her two hundred bucks a week.

Weil Caponey then asked her what time she could start every day expecting her to say 11 o’clock in the morning but Sadie said I’ll start at five in the morning so Caponey was so surprised he doubled her salary again. The next morning when Sadie arrived down at the studio at eight o’clock she was introduced t» Ivanovitch Poulispantzoff who was to be her leading man. Ivan wore pink spats a triangle waistcoat and a crimson gardenia and he looked at Sadie as though she were some strange fish which had just jumped out of the sea. [More about Sadie to-morrow] CEC.