Show co Ji c 4 a av aw ap ap v w p p c JO 4 4 7 1 c 0 1 s i I N 4 Ji i c i i ch h t fiji 1 i I i j ff I Ii Ix i a al x l r l ljj r r jj J rJ PROP HAY BABCOCK Iii charge of the Dramatic Club of the University of Utah I I Miss MEss Youngs Early Hopes I I 1 Chorus girls of today make me inc laugh augh l when they talk about their work being hard bard says Frances Younge who plays the matronly Mrs Horace Butter Butterworth Butterworth worth in The liThe Goddess of Liberty The work of the chorus girl today is fun compared with the that of the chor chorus s girl twenty years ago It was no fun to troupe It on the stands then Now the theatres on the stands have dressing room accommodations accommodations for large companies ot of forty fifty and sixty people and all inside the theatre too In some towns it Is true the dressing rooms are Improvised and often It is necessary to make makeup makeup up by candle light but let me tell you about the time the Fisher opera corn com company pany played at Greenville Miss It was with this company that I Imade Imade made my stage debut as a chorus girl Phil Branson was the tenor Mlle MIle Fat Fatma Fatma ma Diard the prima donna Emily Lea Les Leslie Lealie lie the character woman and Ben Lodge the comedian There were twelve chorus girls and six chorus men We played things like The Mikado The Mascot The Bohemian Girl and ad The Pirates ot of Penzance Well at Greenville we found that there were dressing rooms only for the princIpals These were under the stage and were divided off by curtains The chorus I had to dress out In the open under the trees Happily it was summer time The twelve chorus girls found clothes lines among the trees and with their garments were able to partition L Loff off a cozy little outdoor dressing room at the foot of at a big oak We found a around around round bench on which we stuck our candles before our mIrrors to make Up by The candles candies attracted all aH the night bugs In the state of Mississippi it seemed They would fly through the flame and put the lights out In the middle ot of the show it began I to rain We were playing The Mas Mascot Mascot cot and when we came oft the stage for our change after the first act were horrified to find all our clothes soaked I our stockings hanging like strings on o a athe the lines and our shoes sailing around aroun on the rivulets on the ground But we w had to go on with the show or be L In the town and how we ever eve r pulled through I do not know knowIn In another town the roo roof of the ti Le prima donnas dressing room leaks leaked d during a storm and her gown got 10 wet that she had to wear the bathrobe ot of one of the actors That sort of stage life lie cured Miss Mm Younge of the desire to be a prima dot don donno 17 no na so she turned her attention to the ti ie straight drama The next year she was w Is engaged by Alexander Salvini for the U 10 small part ot of Minnette the Innkeeper rs S daughter In The Three Guardsmen It was my first speaking part and an Ld I never shall forget the rehearsals and an Ld the fIrst night said Miss Young Younge e My princIpal duty was to laugh a de derisive d laugh when Salvini Salvin I came on the ti IC stage rIding a broken down nag I got gi t through the laughIng fairly well In re r C but on the opening night I Iwas Iwas was frightened almost to death and an Id could no more laugh than a fIsh I was wa not surprised therefore when wh n I was commanded to appear at the the theatre th atre the next morning to see Mr Sal Sc Vial I expected to be discharged but bi was told that there was to be a re r There was a rehearsal but bi binOt not of the company It was a private priva rehearsal for SalvIni and the ers daughter For one hour SalvIn Salvi I gave me lessons In laughing And he I e taught rue me a good many other things a that I never have forgotten Now when wh n I laugh I n never ver forget that the laugh must be just as audIble to the farthest person in the last row as to the near nea r est eat In the front row Miss Younge played In the companies compani of ci the late Georgia Cayvan She was w with Rose Stahl and for two seasons as was the Mrs Rigby of The County Coun ty Chairman with Arbuckle She S appeared as Mrs Kenyon with Henry Hen Woodruff in Brown of Harvard and ai Hour last season was with The Man of the I |