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Show MAKES DEFENSE Of CHORUS GIRL ! 'Salvation Nell' Sees More Evil in Small Towns Than on Broadway NEW YORK. Oct :5 Captain ttehba Crawford of the Salvation irmy, the pretty lass in blue who Is absorbing some of Broadway' limelight In her battle to hold prayer meetings on the stps of the Gaiety theatre, Tuesday aiae to the defense de-fense of tho much abused chorus girl "Salvation Nell" made Uer defense of Broadway moral. j win n sho recelv- , ed a reporter at tea In her Oreen-wich Oreen-wich village apartnn ni where Hhe Is recovering from a slight attack ot norves which she suffered after having hav-ing been arrested for obstructing traffic. traf-fic. Discharged in court. sb proposes pro-poses to resume her meetings as soon as she again feel.s flL "I havo never known finer people than those who I have met on Broadway." Broad-way." declared Mis Crawford, whose' father beads th-3 Salvationists' cadotl school in S in Franc sj ,. "The Br-.i i i .v gir! lb , ,K ;, ?t hearted, tho squaroa and i I th most mi 14m: in Lla'g --ri j have! ever known. If she's yout friend, "he is your friend whether ou arc right or wron,-. "I'd take a bunch of chorus girls' and put them against a bunch of school teachers or nurses nny day as far as morality is concerned. I know the chorus gitls would rank with a higher percentage ot morailty. Tho reason there Is somotinci so much adverse comment on the chorus girl! Is because she is so much in tho Spotlight. Spot-light. People know ever;, thing she I does. "I have no kick with the men ou I Broadway, cither. Oniy on.e in the two years that I have been holding meetings' on Broadway has any man ever offered me anything that bore the slightest vestige of an Snauit- "They often think that the city Is! filled With far more evil than rnej small town, but that is not true I know what small towns are like, for I have been in them in Georgia and Florida. "In a single year I have learned of more evil in a small town than I Know of In a city in two years. One reason that tuere is less ovil lr. a1 city like .N'ew York than in a little town Is because bere there aro so! many things to engross the mind. In: Urn country' young people have tool much lime to play around In the light of, full moons and get into trouble. The crowds of citizens are noi conducive con-ducive to sentiment." Although her work is oeutcrcd in1 the theatrical district. Miss Crawford: does not attend the theatre. N'um- ' bered among her close friends, how-, ever are the Barrvmores, the Shu-j berts, George M. Cohan, OIg.i Petro' a ' and other stars. At home, Miss Crawford who for-1 mcrly was engaged In newspaper' t ! Ill 1IHII 'work in A'lanta. Is aa sL, ' :ian wiieaS'' on the ::! WtjH, Do'fed is her srveriH.' long blidP teapot, M ore -:.n " '.iiiHI pl2.4H wa kin? nouts o h?r -rolHI Crawford made a confJB. I'm no tnBj |