Show Pitfalls for American Chorus I Girls in Foreign Countries That t there there- ero is 5 no place liko like hom homo is tho the of or Jock Jack and aud his hie pretty partner May Carson who are indulging In some Iome breath taking stunts at tho this we week k Pour Four years ago these theao two left leU America for a n. engagement in London This engagement extended into the tho provinces of England Scotland and Ireland Belgium cl um Prance France Germany I Austria Russia India Australia Mexico Mex Mox- ox- ox ico Ice and several other othor countries Having ing circled the globe lobe on roller skates so BO BOto soto soto to speak th they y have come to tho the conclusion con cou that dint that there thero is no place like tho the good old United States the tIle homo home of ot corn beef beof and cabbage and tho the Thanksgiving turkey U One One of our trials in tra traveling lin sai said Miss Carson to THE TIIE TELEGRAM was the change chango of o food and customs customs encountered in the different countries In Prance France for instance you rou could not get a a. good breakfast for love Tove orl on money A A. Frenchman calls a couple of ot rolls and a cup of black coffee a breakfast If you ordered a a. beefsteak I believe you Ou would stand the tricolor republic on its head bend In Australia too beef was wa conspicuous by its absence or rather the price was was almost almost prohibitive There they eat nothing but mutton Why you could yot got a leg of lamb there thero for sixpence 1 12 la cents All the big steamers arc are fitted up with cold old storage holds and they stack tho the mutton In thorn theta like cord cordwood wood and return to Eng Eng- land Lind and othor other free freo ports with a load of mutton for ballast so 80 to speak When they start shipping mutton to America under the tho new now tariff look out for tho the price once to droo dron rop Tak Take South Africa too It cost us 70 a n. week to live ive there and then we could not got get the food good old old- Am American dishes India is near nearly y as bad for tor there tho they spice epico everything and serve servo curries curries curries cur cur- ries that would take the polish off a a. abrass brass kettle But as performers otherwise we e had bad a great time Wo We learned one one thing that American girls should tal take o to heart The They think it a great thing to travel but let me mo toll you that there thero are arc few of the chorus girls who ever got get back to America My advice adice to shows shows going to to Russia Russin Rus Rus- sia sin for instance is 18 don don dont to Scores Score of thorn thom go o to Russia all nn right rig but mighty fow few C over ever r come como back They cannot get passports to get out of the thc country and there are arc sonic somo ery very bad stories of unscrupulous unscrupulous un un- un scrupulous managers of small companies companies com corn who have havo taken girl shows to Russia and have havo then lost their pass pas passports ports When wo we were in England they passed a n. white Whito slave elave la law which dealt with just such conditions An investigation investigation gation under way developed de that tho the same kind of traffic was a a. feature of tha tho South American amusement field English h girl shows were shipped to Brazil and other places and they returned Now before an English compan company com corn comi i pan pany carr carrying chorus chores girls goes abroad the manager has hai to put up bonds hands for their return South America interjected Mc Me- rc- rc Lallon Lallen we had bad plenty plent of offers to I S S S S MAY CABON go there thero I would not take any woman there thero for from all aU I 1 can learn it seems to b be the recognized thing for vaude vaude- yule ville audiences to insult a nay any y good looking looking look look- ing lag girls girle It is lS part of the contract that the girls shall not leave tho th theatre atre until after the performance is com corn They are supposed to entertain the tho swarthy senors both on and off ff the stage stae After they have havo completed their turn they are supposed to go down in inthe tho the audience and make themselves agreeable to whomever maw mav desire to talk to them m without the formality of an introduction No Xo g give gc c nut inn America Ame We arc are here and we arc going to sf stav v just as long as the public wants us |