The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-02-27
INTERRUPTIONS
THREE TYPES OF THE BALLET.
The Honest Girl, The Girl Who Was Born
to 1t, The Adventures.
New York Cor, Inter ocean.


New York Cor Inter ocean,
The Three Graces in a 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
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. 1t was necessary to
have three girls of good height and SINH
lar shape for the Graces, and chose them
with those points in view. You'd be sur
prised, though, to see the differences be-
tween them when dressed in their 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 resp.endency 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 a working
girl, said the Snowman, sand the stain of
cigar rolling is still on her hands. She
told me that she had never been on the
stage before, but that she was out of a
Job, and that sick mother was depend
ent on her for support. l guess she told
the truth. At all events there's nothing
vicious about her, Judging by the quality
of her private wardrobe.
Then the seSBnd Grace came along
She was dowdy. Nothing on her fitted.
She looked as though some of the odd
garments from q pawnbroker's shop had
been thrown at her and had stuck wher-
ever they struck. That is q 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 ex-
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 theAsheight 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 a travestg on the
fashionable belle of the period. "That
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the explainer, "and 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 to 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 to 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 y