The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-11-22
Picking Out the Pretty Ones.
New York Manager Selecting his Black Creek
Troupe from Among 400 Poor Girls.
New York Sun, Nov. III

New York Sun, Nov. III
In the green room of the Grand Opera
House, at 10 o'clock yesterday morning, seated
on the chairs and sofas and leaning against
| the walls, were over 400 beautiful girls. An
advertisement in yesterdays Sun for 1900
more comely young maidens for the new
| Black Crook" had called this assemblage
together bright and early, each would-be
fairy hoping for lucrative station in the line
of beauty. As they filed past the manager
| one by one each had some special qualifca-
ton. One had been on the stage in Niblo's
Theatre, and would like to go on again, if she
could get place in the front line, ''but you
know I couldn't afford to take back seat
not me-" Another would "take hand" she
said, elf she could get enough pay to keep
! her little sister
| faded little old woman, in suit of faded
black, hobbled up to the window and begged
| for place in one Of the back rows. saucy
little mink with fashy red scarf ''was all
there, all there was Of her-if they wanted
her they could have her." And they did wan
her, for she was beautiful. Next letter of
! recommendation from San Francisco troupe
was raised up to the window by a mite OF
body, with a jaunty parasol on her arm and
satchel in her hand. Apretty miss of thirteen,
neatly dressed, with pink in each cheek was
not be jostled by the crowd. Then followed
dozen or so of the "fair to middling," one
or two extra superfne," and long file Of the
common-places, the astute manager meanwhile
taking his choice and making his selections
with the skill Of an old stager.
At last the green-room was empty-the
sylphs had disappeared the manager sat
in his furnished Office to enjoy good cigar.
GLOW did you manage to collect so many
girls who wish to 60 on the stage?" asked the
reporter. ;. ;,
manager; 'four lines in this mornings Sun
did it. I have answered 400 applicants-a
little over one hundred applicants for each
line Of advertising. would have been glad
to give them all work, but too many would
crowd the dressing rooms
"These girls, of course, are only for show.
Where do you find your artists who do the
singing and the dancing?"
"We make special contracts with them.
Some of the best operate talent in America
will be presented in the new Black Crook. !"
To good dancer We pay S35 week. The
singers get more To these girls who have
not been on the stage We pay SO week"
A MOTHERLY DEMOCRATIC ROOSTER.
We have heard Of strange freak in nature;
and we might say in nature and politics.
subscriber to the Carrollton journal is the
owner of a bantam cock of the Democratic
persuasion, whose wife had borne him bevy
of chicks. She fingered day or two and
dropped of, leaving her rooster-man widow
er and her little ones pitiable orphans. Re
markable as it may appear the widowed
rooster laid aside his rights as cock of the
walk and turned hen. He gave up all rooste-
rial ambitions He heard the cocks in the
neighbors' yards flap their wings and crow
and proudly strut, but he held down his voice,
and only spread his wings more tenderly over
the orphaned brood, and kept them warm and
comfortable. He mourned sincerely, and did
all in his power to be rooster-mother to his
henless family.
For two months he denied himself the
rcosterly satisfaction of single crow, and his
owner began to believe that he had permanent
ly turned to hen. But the news flashed
over the wires that the. country had once
more gone Democratic. He cooked his head
on one side, while listening to two neighbors
tell the astounding news. 1t was too much
for his henly resolve. For once, he aban-
doned his brood, and sailing upon the fence,
proclaimed the glad tidings that Democracy
was at last the top rail in the national fence.
And that bird behaved wonderfully, Just like
other Democrats He crowed, and crowed, and
crowed, and would still be growing the same
clarion notes, had not night overtaken the
chanticleer, and reminded him before dark
ness set in to find higher roost. Carrouton
(Mo.) Journal
RELIGION AND EMPTY SroMAcHs. num-
Der Rof Evangelical .clergymen here are moving