| Show CHORUS LURES HOST Of GIRLS Pathetic Scenes at Stage Offices One Can Wear Piano Cover Covern fly n MAXINE XI DAVIS 1 IS Special Correspondent of ot Standard- Standard Examiner Copyright 1925 by Consolidated Press Association NEW YORK TOnIC July 11 The Tho Tho pled piper of ot Broadway Is 15 piping his way ay across tho the great t open spaces spaces' these hot summer days dars and In his wake headed for tor New ew York there Is springing up what theatrical I agencies and casting directors characterize as an almost record following of ot would-be would theatrical stars stan I J July when the th majority of ot fall tall fallI I I land and winter Inter shows allows ore are being planned I and cast is tho the month when the I greatest array of ot small town talent packs Us its music roll roil and Its best dress and goes confidently confidently- forth to set the world on fire There are fully tUlly as many girls as ever this July despite the tho fact tact that movies have cut tho the number of shows on the road by somo some 70 iO per cent TRAGEDY GEI l. l AND AN 1 HUMOR The humor the tragedy the Idealism the hard common sense that is paraded before beCore them would make the booking offices and the theatre tryouts to tn outs more thrilling to officials than any show sho If It they weren't so 50 busy hus so sweaty and so accustomed PRO I MONTANA T. At a dance danco rehearsal which the writer visited today tho the crowd In Included In- In Included Included a n. little girl who seemed about 12 years old Long and rather greasy dark curls hung be be- below below I low a n I naive white while bonnet A black velveteen coat and a n. simple while dress completed the costume of ot this little girl In the big city but I she danced like i t professional and took the order o 0 o come to a re rehearsal re- re rehearsal rehearsal with a blase air all She said I her name was Nellie Delaney and added that she came from Butte Mont MontIs MontIs I Is this your our first attempt to get g t tIn In a show the writer asked her Interestedly Interested I I WEAK PIANO COVER COER Aw no she grinned You think so because of my 01 clothes I 1 Iguess Iguess I guess I always alwa's wear this up get-up to toa a Shubert call It always gets their attention It If I was In the th Green Green- Greenwich Green i Greenwich follies I would wear near the piano cower cr cO er with one shoulder blade sticking out If IC it was I would wear my m dress from Fifth avenue There was a fresh looking Russian Rus Rus- Russian Russian sian girl Christina was washer washer washer her name Christina has an aunt in California and she was was trying to get Into a 0 road show bound for that destination Minot Spencer was was w as a pretty prell dis dissatisfied dis- dis dissatisfied satisfied dark little girl In yel yel- yellow yellow el ello low lo from Chicago standing apart at a II song rehearsal TRIED FOR FOB S YEARS I thought Id I'd get et a chance to toU sing my way right t out of the rf mr Zt chorus U if I came to New York Y lt and I studied voice awhile she j ed Well I studied and did typing typing ing for Cor a living I 1 n- n Ive I've been trying to get as far tar as the chorus for tOr three years ears years I Some girls the authorities at the Chorus Equity say have been told that anybody with persistence can get anything they want They fall tall i to add that In the chorus you ou have I to have looks youth and ability toi to dance a little tittle I One oman she woman she must have been b en i 40 40 was was waiting In a booking of-I of 01 I flee ico with an air all of ot fighting It out I j jall all summer She had buck teeth t I Ino no chin and andas was as inclined toward I corpulence I II I will get a Job some time she sha I Isaid said Ive been having ha rotten luck E Every place I go they're there filled Dont you ou think they have lave rath rath- rather I er a premium on rather extreme I youth the writer said sam helpfully Well ell belligerently Im only 22 And as for looks I pass some somo someI I have ha seen on the th stage DESERTED I 1 wire Win Mary Olson It appeared ran away to New ew York from a pleas pleas- pleasant pleasant ant home in South Bend Ind with witha a youth routh who didn't appreciate a good wife Ifo and soon left her hr with their small son eon Mary Iary didn't know how to do much out dance Sho tried for three months to get a aJab Jab job and and and finally landed one Bess Ringwald of Chillicothe Olio Ohio Ohio came camo prepared to knock em dead d ad She brought ht her own ac accompanist ac- ac accompanist accompanist and when the manager to come back bad she fluttered Cluttered so 80 soshe soshe she could hardly breathe It was washer her first try Next year car she might be in III the tho headlines Who knows And there was the flat faced girl who said she had sung In to opera but her voice broke at the tryout and why wouldn't they let her try again She hugged hu her hel shapeless hat and her skirt sagged In the back in Its dejected way Aw Florence had bad better go goback gob goback I back b ck to t St Louis Louls someone said |
