The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-08
BALLET GIRLS CANNOT AGREE.
Fail to Decide Who Shall Be
Let in Their Union.
Some Of Them Want Fifth and Sixth
Line Girls Ruled Out.

The rehearsals of the ballet for the
Liliputians was transferred this morn
ing from Clarendon Hall in East Thir-
teenth street to the Fifth Avenue Thea
tire.
Steve Brodie's troupe" was holding
down the few boards that make up the
Clarendon stage when q young woman
OF Amalonian proportions. bearing a
entered the hall asS s9Speed stosk
Where's the Lliipewshes?" she de-
Iynss the heavy G man ny" FOR f srode IN che
midst Of q hoarse and terrible threat.
After the nrst shock had subsidized a
eay sna the nd
Liliputians' change Of base for re-
"Sare. I remember that now. Nv. been
she exclaimed, and sailed out, stopping
IN the hallway Ions. enough to change
the arrangement OF her bundle. She
a pair pair Of Gs ons .;nes
ings and a nondescript garment that Is
bifurcatcd and designed to reach from
re waant TO the tkmees and except for
very tightly sewed and rivetted She
then gathered them up and rolled them
into a tighter bundle.
| ers of les danes de ballet, who are
about to organize into labor union here
and her name is not given. because 1.-THE
Evening World' reporter will not violate
" You can just bet we're going to haye
S,t H,nnio s.,, she rs said on the way to the
y enough. Il for nothing else need than ~ oaa to
down such fellows as the Eidorado man
agement. I have been making $25 a
week FOR a number Of seasons and can
going to be put to hard straits by the
mean trick OF the Eidorado people.
! ssehwartse promised to come over yes
endon Hall and pay US for the week and
two days that ne owes us. Instead OF
coming. he sent word that some of the
were returned he would pay 1t the money onese
II wish you could have seen the cos
tunes. The only thing that actually
GioXiered US enough to keep us out, OF
the girls furnished themselves. Ali that
Ihe manager gave us was a piece of
enron, which we wound around US like
scanty attire. he didn't care. 80 that 8
snide; the costumes weren't stolen,
a1r Tor the the one one, reason; at least. that they
After yesterdays meeting the $50 girls
Of the Eldorado. who had gathered in
Clarendon Hall, expecting to get their
wages wages, decided to meet again to-day and
lection of the Central Labor Union.
That this is not going to be done with.
OUT equabbie Is already certain. II
necessary to understand the profess
grasp the nature OF the row that Is al.
ready brewing. Girls are classed and
S22; second line, $50; third line, SIS:
fourth line. SIG; nth line. 81; sixth line,
The scale Of wages given has been the
standard for years, but recently the
hard times have reduced It somewha I
particularly among those already poorest
paid, The lines refer to their places In
Immediately facing the audience S 1nt
should naturally Be composed OF the
prettiest girls and the best dancers
and SO on towards the rear In the order
Of looks and proficiency.
The girls in the first three lines are
lowed by nature, with good faces and
figures: Beyond that, and particu.
larry the fifth and sixth lines, the girls
are collected more to produce the effect
or numbers than for their individual
previous experience is required there.
The leaders regard these interiors
from two points ofview, One side. and
the noisiest and first to speak. is OPP
posed % having any thing to do with
side. more charitabiy Inclined, say that
than their expert and better paid sis
tiers. and that II they were brought
into the union they could be taught the
shamefulness OF working at beggarly
AS the question who shall constitute
an associat dion Is one OF the first en-
countered In forming any organization,
| the ballet girls will strike this almost
Immediately when they meet to organ