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Show I DO YOU ENVY CHORUS GSRL? jl SHE'S HARDEST OF WORKERS hi The average working girl who never imagines the chorus girl loesi anything that von might, call "work" can get one of the best pictures of the "other "oth-er side" from Stsige .Manager Sohlke's "uniformed chorus" girls who sue dressed cspeeiallv for thoir work in j short black skirt's, black stockings, and black blouses, says the Chicago '.I rib-unc. rib-unc. Here at the Whitnev opera-house the I plumed hat. the gold bag, the iloaling j automobile veil, tho gay blouse, and j the gay little walking skirl that foj;-mcrlv foj;-mcrlv kept tho chorus girl in her own character even when she "wns rehearsing, rehears-ing, arc absent. " I must see their feel, so Ihat 1 can tell what everybody is doing." explained ex-plained Mr. Solilkc, "and the best way ! of doing this and getting some uniformity uniform-ity of effect, is to put the girls in 'gym' dresses. It is better nnd less expensive ex-pensive for them too, for if they fall down over anything or have to climb on top of things, no matter how rough the work or how they have to train, they haven't any frills to pull out or things to got dirty and tear." That is Iho explanatory side lo how tho girls of gayety becomo the personification person-ification of the brack-clothed and shivering shiv-ering little maids of work when seen on tho cold stage with the disillusionizing effects of slc:i7.y black clothes nnd hair which doesn't "show the beautifying and brushing tracca which belong to the chorus girl of flic night. Anybody might be the worse for wear, however, who gets down at 0 in the morning and docs not go home until after theater rehearss'il has been finished fin-ished at night. This i? the case each day and every day when there is a new production to put on, with the old one still running evening performances and matinees. F.vcu with a "located" chorus regularly engaged for the yenr with girls that would scorn to go out of town the working hours are sixteen six-teen a day under these conditions. In a special ease of this kind, re-hearsal re-hearsal begins at 9 o'clock in the morning. At noon there is an hour for lunch, or perhaps a little more. Then there is trnining again until 5 o'clock severe training, loo. "T thought you were singing a lovo part there?" shouted Manager Sohlkc 1 tho other day, .jumping upon the stage and stopping the 'Miovey Mine" song hy frantically waving his arms sind flourishing his bnton. "Well, then, can't you look happy about it?" "There is a legend around the tlua-ter tlua-ter that you can't, get tiny good work out of a chorus girl unless you swear at her. There used to be nnotner legend that you couldn't train animals unless you starved and beat them,'- said M.r. Gerson. "At tho anti-cruelty bonefit the other day Iho most popular number num-ber was given by Ihc troupe of dogs that were trained by kintlne?a." If there ever should be such a thing as a benefit for chorus girls. Manager Sohlkc could go on with his tToupe of uniformed dancers and write them into the programme ns -''chorus girls? trained with kindness, who never have been sworn at." it is the claim of Manager Green that girls employed at this theater never have had a big ID said to them tremendous, great white light this in the life of the chorus girl. "lie is good feeling nnd enthusiastic, enthusias-tic, and he gets the work out of them that way," said Manager Gerson. "and you can see what a nice and jolly little crowd they are." "lie gels the work out of them,'' says Manager Gerson. He does, indeed. in-deed. Tt is the little white flyers from the realm of tinsel and tulle who leave all other tourists far behind sotnewhero in space when it comes to a run in tho hard working life. Tt was o'clock and some of Ihe "fairy phantoms" and the "dancing sunbeams" wero dismissed on this snmo afternoon after working all dsLy on tho new opera. Others were hold lo duty. "Iait's sec how you fit in the airship," air-ship," says the stage manager "Begin, "Be-gin, get in. Next, next, next." Six little maids obediently came forward, for-ward, one at si time, hopped over the sides of the basket which forms the car of the airship, and sat down tailor fashion, with their legs and feet slowed away in the bottom somewhere. Ordinarily this would not be called work, except when you have been doing acrobatic stunts sill day and it is diversion di-version compared to what comes after. For when tho chorus girl finnlly is dismissed sho trots up five flights of stairs or six it seems like eleven. Anyway, it is to her dressing room, which is tho top tier above all the other tiers, and sho climbs it four tunes to chnngo her costume during each performance "You never see a fat girl in the chorus I suppose it is tho way thev fork that keeps them so nice an slender," slen-der," said a eirl in the audience tho other day. Sho wns telling about "work," meaning dancing. Tt is also! the "work" climbing stairs and keep- it ing long hours which si retch into time, as well as dinner and break r time, that keeps the chorus girl'l The trirl in iho office would thinkjf 'P must stop and go into a sanatorini she had sis thin arms and as lUtlo'f as the chorus girl after she has yfoi 3r and trained for a steady season, & Being dismissed t u o'clock do &- moan going out, lo dinner prora '3? this lime. Instead, it menus whi $ your turn to be fiMed. Standing S-i and being pinned into a little cosit of many scams not, only liai your own plaits put in for yottjji sonic oxtrsi ones in case ou siiouldiJ if an uudersludy. and the nndeniti 1?1 should be fat or long v.aifitcd, Vr you are thin and short v.aistcd. Ti V, are large scams left nudemenjh by- Hi clover wardrobe woman tor thoJfj-' accident, nnd si horizontal plait isi around tho wsiist where it is covi ? by the belt for the second. $ tt' All this Isikcs as lunch stawliiijs any other gown, and one is not ialfl shape for it after having "Trorlei all day also after hai ing comcitipj six flights four-times first to putj j-gym j-gym suits on, second to 'akc thonul to go out to lunch, third to putU ? on again, and fourth to be littcafi g get ready to go out lo dinner, P. " I'm all in," ssiid one girl, droppj on tho floor. "Sfe "Me next" said anolhcr, gcttf ' up from Ihc" same position. "Sf "Won't you have thin fient.?',H the occupsitit of ihc only chair inyJi sewing room. J S "Oh, wo wouldn know how. 'tw in a chair we are not used to iK'X? v the rest of the "fair pliant'onij l sprawling over the floor 3t i "What arc our hats to het'' " Brosidbriinnicd yellow sating bonnets," answered the wsrdrS5 woman. JM" "Oh, lovely. I love poke bonnet!-squealed bonnet!-squealed everybody. iPa "Pink silk,'"' ssiid another girlSM:11 ing into a box. "Oh. lovelyfl3 silk,'.' coo the girls, smoothing outW'J new pairs' of long, soft, flcsliings.iw Good natured and nolly qvJ things is 'the chorus girl in spite'oflB? ' fact that she still has to stand vyW I be fitted, and has to be back aljw! the evening performance. WiljtjM's last over there is still a call 0Tim. rehearsal before going home at live. Did you think the chorus girjMti nothing but champagne suppen. automobile rides? Did yon Ioo"kl m ingly in her direction and envy her .$18 or .$20 a weok litlloj c working girl with the littlo pluyj nry? Thcro is si number in .the, opera in which six of the girlsi "the French" costumes the which arc topped off with vcllowi! coats. The rest, of the outfit onlv bo described as " 'alt' and 'alfin Oil ono sido they become fluffy 5 girl's, with the ' most agitated T and ripples in light green and on other side they are al! in black ono side there are spangled band, lavender, and pink, and blue coj down on the green skirt nnd crt in flowers. On the other, flic skn of the plainest, smoothest black 'Of cloth. Stockings and shoes repca two colors. . 5 Take a good look at this coslua you arc envving the chorus cirj pretty flush of excitement wluia dances and sings. Take a good It ! it, for this costume is typical ns stagy ,-iud effective. It 13 sartorial illustration of the -sided girl." Like the office girl chorus girl is helping lo simnor family out. of her pay envelope,: least half a dozen cases out of W four. That and tho never-ending, arc pari of tho plain black side.j she does it with good nature and, and with gentle littlo cooings ori prcttv silk fleshings, oven when1.! dead tired that is a bit out 0. fluffy ruffle part. 1 'j . tk |