Peggy read with mounting conviction and assurance.
PEGGY LANE THEATER STORIES
Peggy on the Road
By VIRGINIA HUGHES
Illustrated by Sergio Leone
GROSSET & DUNLAP Publishers
NEW YORK
© GROSSET & DUNLAP, INC., 1963
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CONTENTS
- 1 The Break of a Lifetime 1
- 2 Katherine Nelson 16
- 3 The Inner Sanctum 30
- 4 “Innocent Laughter” 41
- 5 Tryouts 52
- 6 “Why Don’t You Quit?” 66
- 7 Peggy Turns Detective 76
- 8 The Search 86
- 9 The One-Eyed Giant 103
- 10 Tom Agate 114
- 11 A Star Comes Back 125
- 12 Tom’s Tryout 139
- 13 The Ordeal 148
- 14 The Secret 157
- 15 “Curtain Going Up!” 170
PEGGY ON THE ROAD
I
The Break of a Lifetime
With a grateful sigh Peggy Lane lowered her achingfeet into the delicious warmth of a dishpan filledwith hot water, bath crystals, and Epsom salts. Inother rooms exactly like hers throughout the bigbrownstone house near New York’s Gramercy Park,half a dozen hopeful, equally tired, but determinedyoung girls about Peggy’s age were doing the samething.
At the Gramercy Arms, a rooming house for youngactresses in the middle of Manhattan, this was a dailyritual known lightheartedly as the “cocktail hour.”
Peggy sighed a second time, wiggled her toes inthe steamy water, and flopped back on the studiocouch.
“What a life,” she murmured darkly.
As if in answer to her complaint, the lights of NewYork began coming on. One by one, they twinkledthrough her window