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Show Some Marriage Dreams That Don't Come True During the present season 25,000 prospective chorus girls applied for employment wdth New York city's theatrical the-atrical producers. Most of them came from small towns and cities from all over the country. About 5,000 found Jobs with "shows," good, bad and Indifferent. In-different. What became of the other 20,000 it would be difficult to say. The average professional life of chorus girls is three short years and they may expect many weeks of idleness In this period. There always is an overabundant over-abundant supply of new ones to select from every fall. Perhaps 150 attain to speaking parts In plays In one season. sea-son. The rest are rarely heard of again. Most stage-struck girls dream of brilliant marriages to men of wealth but that is an illusive dream. O. O. Mclntyre, New York theatrical critic, says uot more than ten chorus girls have married millionaires In the last ten years and most of these matches have ended in divorce. |
