Show p Wise Billy Cl Clifford Talks of Chorus horus Girl Billy Clifford Is at the Colonial In A Girl at the Helm thinks a lot of his chorus and regarding the effect they have upon the audience says In the newspapers and to the audience the cho chorus rus of a modern musical cOmpany s composed of chorus men show girls girl girland and broilers but behind the scenes you only hear them spoken of by each other as the boys big girls girIs and the little girls The beauty of an a ensemble re reqUires qUires manly looking boys of talent for they are all ambitious to become principals pals and indeed they must all do so in time though their best efforts usually escape the notice of an audience while the magnificence of the many changes of costumes worn by the big girls girl force thorn them into nto prominence as with stately grae they through h the tiresome Intricacies of a long bug number The big girls are always well In the and each must depend upon tier her own Individual grace beauty and j voice to make her stand out like tJ fa familiar a object in a picture but the tho queenly beauty or of n it well lot of big girls count half so much to the man lt as those agile sixteen to eight little girls who must prove their worth in each number every night by hard work marvelous agility and by bytho bythe the tho enthusiasm they display in their dances and capers with their faces wreathed In smiles every second The Tho publIc has troubles and frowns enough of Its own and pays for smiles and no song no matter how can recompense then them for the loss of th the smiles smile ot of these little girls Whom I they take collectively to their hearth from the moment they come rollicking on till the curtain drops on the last act A single frown cross look or a display of weariness from one pf of the little girls even In the last finale will spoil the best production without the audience knowing just hat shat It was that has marred the picture Instinctively tho faces of the smiling little girls is mirrored an am reflected bythe by bythe the faces of the audience and a careful observer sitting in one of the boxes whore where he can see both the stage and the audi audience once ence can watch this play of to great advantage It If the observer Is well acquainted he may select men and women of his acquaintance whom he knows have worries and troubles that preclude smiles 8 and he will notice that the vivacious lit little littie tie tle girls are prancing and their dainty little heads are bobbing In unison to the rhythmic melodies and their saucy eyes ro dancing that the somber faces of thOse these they are watching in the audience are softened Into smiles momentarilY at least the reflected of the happy hitt girls Is reflected In their faces and they forget their troubles and their sorrows There Is no medicine on earth that wilt will evoke forgetfulness of pain as quickly as the tho romping gambols of a lot of smiling little girls who put heart Into their work and ginger Into their shapely little limbs The soft of theIr cute little feet jar the nerves It If you have never noticed this in an audience just watch your neighbors th the next time you attend a musical comedy performance |