TOD SLOAN 



several mutual friends took occasion to congratulate 

 them on the reported engagement. Sloan tried to 

 blush and said nothing. Miss Sanderson smiled feebly 

 and remarked that it wasn't wise to believe all reports. 

 "Miss Sanderson's rise on the musical stage has 

 been meteoric. She was an unknown chorus girl in 

 Winsome Winnie when Paula Edwardes, the star, was 

 suddenly called away by the death of her brother. 

 Without previous rehearsal Miss Sanderson sang the 

 title role and made a hit. She was subsequently 

 assigned to a role of importance in A Chinese Honey- 

 moon, and after Madge Lessing retired from Wang 

 received the part of Mataya." 



From Hammerstein's my engagement extended to 

 Brooklyn and elsewhere, but the strain of two shows a 

 day became too great ; it was all right looking forward 

 to the evening only, but I didn't feel equal to the 

 afternoon too, and perhaps rather foolishly made no 

 more bookings. It must be remembered that natur- 

 ally the big billiard hall could not be looked after 

 quite so well, and there was enough in this to give us a 

 good living. That particular trip to America, where 

 I only intended to go for a few months in 1904, ex- 

 tended up to 1908. It can be put down here that 

 despite my having no licence to ride, and my repeated 

 failures to get one, old friends stuck to me and that 

 I made new ones. Year succeeds year very quickly 

 when we get over a certain age and those happy three 

 years after my marriage seemed to fly. Of course 

 there were little ups and downs of fortune which are 

 inseparable from the experiences of those who go 

 racing, but somehow when there is racing money seems 

 to circulate more freely and there were always a certain 

 number of " bucks " in my pocket. For those who are 



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