The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-14
FAME AND FORTUNE HERS.
..ng BOHRMAN HAS DANCED
CA ino pEARTs OF NEW WORKERS.

Girls Success ON the
carrie BOhrman Is just
s.teen. But She VIII Draw 800
,r.oI. ut weber and Ffeids
s.ason-The Season After She
cot 1928 a Week-She Has
pictured by Many Artists
IN Many Papers-Ciimbs
ov of Champagne Bottles.
rsrly Training Was Received
In savannah
-,.4.. little miss is Carrie Bohrman,
- If fortune, and with graces and
ms that win her good, hard dollars
savannah girl, too, though born
,.l,r+a She was reared here, and for
I'll years the people of this city had
unity to observe the exhibition of
o l+.a+s of heel, or rather of toe, for Carrie
- toe dancer. that have advanced her.
.bs tender age of IA, to a position
..,o,u the very first of the vaudeville ar
''... If the American stage.
1-..io and her mother, Mrs. L. B.
,..n,.,n wife of Mr.. L. B. Bohrman,
cling salesman for Mr.. ]. R. Elm
will sail for Baltimore to-
or whence they will go
=. rail to New York. Carries
cement at Weber & Fields Theater
:. - he resumed within some ten days,
nd che wants to get back to New York
l., time TO get her muscles and her grace
chi nrettily-turned limbs in perfect har-
r,o,v and accord and readiness to per-
form those feats of agility that have adj
,,arcsd her in the estimation of the New
vork public to an eminence that enables
her m appear with such stars as Lillian
17psseu DeWolf Hopper, Fay Tempieton,
Sam Bernard and others who make up
Weber & Fields galaxy of stars this sea-
son.
Her fourteen years have not interfered
uith Carries ability to make money. The
nrettv. petite brunette, with laughing,
vivacjous face, bright, winsome manner,
sauov piauant eye and pretty, curling
hair, will get 500 week from Weber
G. Field during the coming season, and
she has to work only ten minutes each
night to do it. On matinee days, two
during the week, she has to work hard
or She has to actually work twenty min
utes each day then to earn her 500 a
week The aggregate of her acts during
q week is eighty minutes, and 500 is
not bad pay for that much of her time.
Carrie started in with Weber & Field
q wear ago She had three-years' con-
tract with them, by which she was to
get SIS a week the first year, 800 week
the second year. and SIPS a week the
third. She is about to enter upon the
second, year of her contract.
Three years ago Carrie entered upon
her professional career. Her first appear
ance was with the Woodward-Wa
Company. She was greeted by large
houses at Savannah then. 1t was not
long before it was clear enough that Car
ne was out of her class in the popular
priced company. She was capable OF
greater and better things. She went with
another company very soon, and her rise
has been meteoric since. Weber and Field
got an eye on her, and they knew there
was a good thing in it for their house
il luEA lOuttl Otiy SCI DGA- tlSy lAAddC
their offer, and it was accepted.
Carrie has taken on in New York. She
has had countless complimentary notices
Of her work appear in the daily papers
and in the periodicals that are devoted
to the stage. Her picture is in demand,
aud the full length of the grace.
symmetry and suppleness that is shown
by her charming little person is eagerly
sought cigarette firm wanted her TO
pose for a picture for an advertisement
not long ago The firm thought 500 was
not too much for the picture they got.
Photographers are delighted if they can
gel her to pose. One in Boston paid S2a
for the privilege of taking her dainty
oveliness not long ago.
In dancing, Carrie shows to most bril-
liant advantage, but she also sings and
poses in electrical settings. The Maid
IN the Noon" is the title of one of her
poses, and another speciality is the Gar
den Of Roses" wherein she does a very
fast toe dance.
one Of the most wonderful of the feats
OF the little Savannah dancer is her climb
Up stairway and her descent. This is
nor an ordinary stairway 1t is construct
ea OF row of champagne bottles, and at
Inc landing there is a 5-year-old child,
P'seu anna flowers. Carries act is to
mount TINS stairway, stepping. with infin-
Ie grace, from cork to cork of each
champagne bottle. She raises the child in
ner arms and descends as she mounted,
oy the corks on the bottles.
Inc little girl has most remarkable
muscular power in her feet. Weber thinks
II remarkable. Most toe dancers use cups
Jug which their toes fit. Carries does
nv Weber was so astonished when he
sS~ her work that he suggested that she
uIo" ner slippers into the audience at
en1 OF each act. to show that they
~ without cups, only the soft leather.
i.Ns she did. and all last season the lit
s we slrl tossed her slippers beyond the
1T9o'nsAls at the close of each of her acts.
'T1Ay Ihe man who caught one.
sopie Of savannah. where she was
feared and Of Atlanta, where She was
UoIh viii watch the career of Carrie
I'm oH, man with interest. They hope to see
lane Increase from year to year. She
51" uancing in Savannah when she was
81 years old. Many will recall her
90 me r,lc hlfmess given under the direction
~ a. .oI Asostini She appeared frequent
81" amateur performances, and was al
49,, 49, haHed with delight. She and her
I remain at the North during the
,ason but get back to Savannah dur
rei,,i. summer for visits to Savannah