The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-10-10

heard. Ballet girls are never heard,
only seen.
A reporter had conversation last
week with gentleman well VerSed in
the business of the ballet. He argued
that the life of a ballet girl was not so
disayreeable as is generally supposed.
"rhey get from 81 to 50 a week." he
said, land out Of that only have to pay
their personal expenses, " hich is q good
deal better than a great many women
are doing who hire themselves ont as
salesWOmeu, clerks copyists, ETC., for
from S2Io SIS week. They have to work
much harder for their wages, too, than
do the ballet girls, and their life is moth
ing but II mOnotOnous drudgery, while /
TO my notion ballet girls live u life OF .
pleasure and diversion. | am speak
ing of girls that travel with |
some good reliable spectacle. After [
they learn their business there is little I
for them to do except 10 80 To the thea |
tire AT night, put on their customcs, and /
prance around the stage NJ intervals of /
about three hours, There beng good /
many Of them, they have nice, socia- |
bile time, and being ON the 50 all the |
while they get aschance TO see the coun- |
try"
"But are they not frequently sub
jected To insult on account OF their aVO-
CatiOnHh
"Not Mt all. They may be insulted,
and so may any lady that walks along
on your streets, but ballet girls are as re-
! spectacle as an other class of women. 10
! is X very wrong idea that most men have
| that because u ballet girl puts on tights
and goes on the stage she has lost her
native modssty. 1t is IA matter OF bust
ness which may seem unpleasant to n
woman at first, but she soon becomes
accustomed to il. People generally
have q poor opinion Of ballet girls, but
il is because they don't know any more
Of them than what they see on the stage.
Sometimes men are charmed by pretty
girl and endeAyOr to make her acquainl-
ance without the usual iormli.
ties, and know of lots OF in
stances whcro they got badly lett.
Tho company | was with last season
had several pretty girls in it, and they
: attracted the mashers wherever they
, went. In Philadelphia young fellow
determined TO get acquainted with one
Of the girls, aud finding out where sht
r was boarding he called on her. Sh,
| was very angry ut his imperilnence hn'
ordered him TO leave, when he used vile
- Language towards her. In errightuou
indignation she pulled ont u little TWEEN
, ty-twO cahber revolver and shot him II
The arm. The wound was slight, and a.
y the Young scalawag was the scion OF
: wealthy and aristocrntic family tho al
r fair was hushCd up.
4 "Sucb cases, however, are rare. IL !
n nothing uncommon for men i'll the non
rows to endeavor to catch a girls eye
and set up quiet Irritation, and, II sue
a cesSlul, call AZ the stage do, when IN
n performance is over; hut If the bal
10 L al uI
easy for her to do so rs for any lady
private life"
"Do all the combinations include fu
l. bslletY
- many do not. They carry one or "
ST who are used to lead the green onoS o
TX tanned in the place where the comp3r
,s plays. AsarulC, the manager OF cor
huaton makes a stipulation in his co
'r tract TINT the manager OF the thoat
~ whore he is tOplay shall furnish co
ne tain number Of ballet girls. These ~
'E called for rehearsal o. the day the col
lr buatiou reaches the city where II is
ne play, and then the ballet girls Of u
u company teach the new ones what is
," Quiiod Of them. Girls are quick 20 lea
Iauything connected with the stage, al
lS YOU can teach ten or twenty girls TO
~ through march or even "a Compllcat
"r drill III very short time. IN
re- learn much quicker than the mi
Ut supers, who, as rule, take the palm
stupidity. Very tew managers can
- ford to carry a large number Of 81
II who do nothing but walk on and of
I' stage. The one or two whom he d'
~ carry with him make themselves use
, in various ways, generally assisting
ne the wardrohe-rJom and in dressing
'or new Amaaous, peasants, fairies,
nv whatever, for tho time being, they r
W. resent
is "Is it not difficult to got girls WI
lel travelingy'
an "As a general rule 1t Is not. In
~ large cities they arc plentiful, but in
- smaller towns whore everyone knt
ho everyone else, the girls who
.. willing 10 go on are not numerous
h7 desirable. ! have seen some tea'
Se; looking guddcsses and dropsiral fan
leu in tho smaller towns, but the girls mo
tth seemed 10 ue con -ciOus of the fact
NJ they looked like irights. II IL rat
singular thing that women on the ~
w never seem To- know when they poS'
INC bad figures. Concerning the beauti.
IT, defects of their lnces they are excel
A., Judges, but when they attempt To ia
uu' Of the merits OF their figures they
!, re- 20 honestly incapable of reaching any
rect cOhCluSlbns
49,. "From what class In society 10 q
ub gjrlg cOmoY'
,hu "From the working class. They
ny erally have some friend in the thci
u'S- stage hand, for instance, who sect
them = chance when some sudden ~
ycucy creates q demand for them. I
mar when girl IL once ON, shc soner
ms manages To get her cEum on the
ead' also. Aud whom once they set foo
cNi- fore the footlights, they are ruined
"teS any kind ur labor. They nccoG I'M
'.' st "a with tho stage, and it they arc
90 oI .nliod uuNu three ar four Times q y
ltIcv will. nevertheless, hing about
SAGE dpor, day aff'rduv, on tho loo
fra chance to 70 oil again.
md "Do hallet.girls ever rise In tho
the fessionGn
~. $50 seldom that do not now roca
'S'N Instance. They are not recognize,
nys- apprentices, and consequently are y
'eAk. no eucOuragcmuut or assistance,
.or,, arc only female supcrs hired to ,
'''' around the stage tor the. Time bel
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