| Show KICKCvG FOR A HYING Girls for the Uallet ami Wliat They tooi Like I cuiud the Scones Not the least interesting feature of 3Ir i W J Gilmores Devils Auction j company com-pany which played at the Boyd last week is the school of young women who makeup make-up the ballet of the company These girls collectively and individually are a I study Their number includes young j i girls old girls fat girls and lean girls i plump girls bony girls tall girls and short girls beautiful girls handsome I girls pretty girls plain girls and homely i I girls girls with good teeth bad teeth and I no teeth girls who laugh smile and I j sing and girls who whine sulk and cry i giddy girls serious girls sensible girls pious girls busy girls and idle girls active girls and passive girls girls independent inde-pendent bold fearless and brave girls modest timid and shy girls afraid 1o act and even to think for themselves and girls who absolutely superior to in fluences or circumstances not only push and fight their way through the crowd but stand up like little warriors between want and privation and whole families of relatives The nature of their profession is such that a very short apprenticeship will suffice to wear off prudishness or extreme ex-treme sensitiveness but let a stranger at tempt familiarity or presume to overstep the chalk line of propriety and the eyes of the injured girl will snap with indigna tion SCENES WITh ScENEs Yes you may come in but if 1 were less agreeable I would repel for you reporters re-porters are such treacherous creatures Here we are semidressed and I would not be the least bit surprised to get up in the morning and find all our photographs in some pictoral paper and the haha that came out of five snowy throats simultaneously sim-ultaneously was atmost deafening There were five in the group all in tights with colored trunks low necked bodice hare arms shoulders and neck and pretty turbans pinned on their pretty little heads nobody knows how They had just come off the stage thoroughly ex hansted from the last dance which lad been done so well as to call for a repeti tion They were flushed with heat big drops of perspiration covered their faces and throats and the attitudes assumed were those of perfect abandon One girl I more anxious than tired had changed her costume and stood with one foot on a I I chair to keep her skirts from falling off and half concealed halfrevealed by a I I square post was tugging away at a dilap I idated pair of corsets which appeared to liave no intention of getting hooked One brunette with large black eyes and a dimpled face had nothing whatever to say and sat in a dark corner on a low stool with her knees hugged to her bosom she had a faraway look in her eyes but was less absentminded than she appeared for she laughed heartily when anything humorous occurred She said her name was Fannie and she came from New Orleans that she liked the stage well enough but wished she was not too old to becoir a premier At the door stood a girl in her teens of except ing beauty knitting a blue worsted undergarment under-garment lULLING TIME Can you knit asked the reporter Dont you see I can was the pert answer an-swer swerWhats your name andwhat are you making and where do you live My name is Bertia and I reside in I Cincinnati and I am making myself a II I skirt How do I learn Oh Kitty taught I I me Shes the best girl in the company everybody likes her Yes indeed we do sang out the rest of the girls in chorus and a medium plump pretty woman of about 25 i blushed very red and saying something I I about blarney began an unmerciful attack at-tack on the luckless chum who brought her into notice Katie is the worst sleepyhead you ever say all she wants to do is to snore and eat On our way from Philadelphia to Denver she never woke up except for her meals She can eat anything but give her corned beef and her pretzel and she is satisfied In answer to the writers interrogatories interroga-tories a petite blonde they called Fannie said J was born in London but j I studied in the dancingcollege of Berlin I for four years We make as firstclass I 35 per week have our traveling ex I penses paid and we manage to save some money and have a pretty good time Our costumes are furnished by the manager but we have to find onr shoes Now we dont get rich very fast as our board costs us 10 per week besides the cost of washing wash-ing This is the best company I was ever in Mr Gilmore the proprietor being be-ing a very kind gentleman bnt we hardly see enough of him as it is seldom he comes on to the company His manager Mr Gale is a perfect gentleman and does all he can to make our season enjoyable I hardly know what we girls would do without him Mr Murray our agent is also very considerate and does all in his power in rating us reasonably at first class hotels We are a big jolly family and Mr Gale is our papa JLST LIKE OTHER GIRIS What do we do with ourselves Why I we are just like other girls silly and sensible sen-sible at times The public has some very strange ideas regarding stage people I I declare but if you saw us up at 7 oclock in the morning and the sewing mending I mend-ing and patching and writing and reading read-ing and sorrowing at disappointment and rejoicing at unexpected pleasures I am sure you would believe we are flesh and blood and human just as you are I What am I knitting Some silk socks II for my father He lives in London and is 65 years old and I am going to send I him six pairs for Christmas I keep i them in my bag and do a few stitches I i every time I get a chance I have only been on them a couple of weeks and I have a pair and a half done already so you cant say the corps de ballett squanders > squan-ders all their time in idleness May I ask where your horn ° is inquired in-quired the visitor of a roundfaced girl with a lot fluffy brown hair Yes but you must pardon me if I refuse to tell you You are not a runaway I trust No indeed she isnt the only thing Nellie runs away from is the dude said I Marie Mr Gilmore or Mr Gale will I not have runaways the responsibilities fare 1 f-are too great We have been rehearsing the last four weeks and I thank goodness it is all over 0 Im tired I wish I had t something i to read tonight Say Fannie did you finish that book I lent you I But Fan was still trying to lock herself into her corsets and paid no heed to the inquiry What was the book 1 The Sparkling Diamonds or a Night in San Francisco It was a regular I nightmare kind of a Yarn but I liked it better than Tomms redding or The Iast of the Staffords j that I bought on the train j I Well Mr Reporter here comes the j balletmaster Raccanello and that means j to get ready for the Peacock Ballet PO good by call again all the girls will be pleased to see you Just then liaccanello the maistre a de I I ballet clapped his hands down went Katies corsets and Dannies blue worsted work and five fairies jumped into peacock pea-cock dresses and popped their heads into I glittering peacock hats and scampered II up stairs in single file to wait their cues Omaha Herald |
