Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-02-18
THREE TYPES OF THE BALLET.
The Hanest Girl The Girl Who Was Bors
to It, The Adventures.
New York Cor. Inter Ocean,

TO It, The Adventures.
New York Cor Inter ocean,
The three Graces in tableau were un.
commonly satisfactory, in an artistic sense,
for the girls introduced were perfect in
their classic shapeliness, and had faces
which might have belonged TO goddesses.
i asked the stage manager If they were
sisters and where he got them.
"They re not sisters, nor relatives OF
any kind, he replied; Il picked them out
of the crowd that applied for work when
we put the piece on. II was necessary TO
have three girls of good height and SINH.
lar shape for the Graces, and | chose them
with thuse points in view. You'd be sur.
prised, though, to see the differences be.
tween them when dressed in the. own
costumes; wait half an hour and you shall
see them depart in their private toggery.
A matinee performance was nearly
over, and at the close the manager sta.
toned himself near the stage door
where he could see the disappear
ing employees without seeming to care
about them. The first of the depart
ing Graces was nearly threadbare as TO the
cloak, and shabby as to the hat into which
the resplendency Of mythology had
shrunk. She hurried out as though afraid
Of being seen as she emerged, and got
aboard passing street.car bound for the
east side Of town. "She is working
girl, said the Snowman, ~and the stain OF
cigar.rolling is still OH her hands. She
told me that she had never been on the
stage before, but that she was out of a
lob, and that sick mother was depend.
ent on her for support. | guess she told
the truth At all events there's nothing
vicious about her, judging by The quality
of her private wardrobe.
Then the second Grace came along.
She was a dowdy. Nothing on her fitted.
She looked as though some Of the odd
garments from a pawnbrokers shop had
been thrown at her and had stuck wher-
ever they struck That is a girl born TO
the stage, said the manager, -and the rag.
bag on legs at her side is her mother, who
is in our ballet She doesn't know any.
thing outside Of stage life, and her cx-
perienCes have been rather demoraliZing,
though not necessarily wicked
The third Grace made her appearance.
She was more gorgeous than when the cal.
cium had lighted up her simulated nudity.
Her costume was in the height of fashion,
not TO say the breadth, and the new
features OF the current styles were exag.
gerated to the degree of 'burlesque. Bad
taste and costliness struggled for the mas.
terry in her makeup Her face had not
been cleaned of any Of the paint
which had adorned it for professional pur.
poses She was travesty on the
fashionable belle Of the period THAT
creature is paid by US Sl2 week., said
the explainer. land guess she spends all
her salary for gloves and candy. Step
this way. See, she is getting into a cab.
That is the way she comes and goes. She
appears on the stage partly 10 crafty
vanity and partly to advertise her disrep.
utable self
you have seen three types of ballet
girls in our Three Graces-the honest girl,
who takes 10 it in the lack of other work;
the girl who was born TO it, and the ad.
ventures. That's about the way they run
on the average.