The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-18

led by "vivacious soubrette" in the act
OF telling the interested public all about
certain "Sallie" who was certainly a
daisy" and who set all the BOYS crazy
Inc young women were attired in short red
SIX skirts with cream-colored top coats
ana masculine silk hats to match They
all carried canes, and as they sang their
song they walked sideways across the
stage. their leader ever holding her own
In the foreground, where the thankful
spectators might not for moment lose
sight OF her
Why is it that the moment chorus girls
don mems hats and get canes in their
hands they must needs walk sideways with
arms akimbo. jogging up and down in
time to the music they are singing? The
question seems hopeless of, solution. In
this particular instance the young women
marched briskly from one side of the stage
to the other. in crab-like style The song
'hey sang was surely the work Of a genius
The brusqueness of the rhymes was re-
ireshing, and when they reached that de-
hghtful climax in the composition where
they explained that ''Sallie was their dane
ing pallle, the thoughtful listeners could
not help but feel that the acme of melodc
poetry had been attained at last.
The merry singers, all smiles and bubbling
over with joyous spirits made a triumphant
exit at the close of this gloom dispelling
musical number, and the instant they were
out of sight Of the audience began a heated
discussion among themselves over something
that had occurred at the hotel that morning
something that had reused the ire of all
| of them
| Il don't carei 1t wasn't Sans fault" one
| Of the merry maidens declared, emphatical-
/ ~. ''He had a right to call a rehearsal if
he thought
''Oh, get Quit Sam is always picking
! flaws in everything" interrupted another,
| angrily. IF we don't happen to get the
song just as he
But the audience was vociferously de-
handing repetition of the classic they had
| just sung. and, as the signal was given by
the stage manager TO render another verse
| of the thing, there was no more opportunity
| just then to thrash out the argument that
seemed TO be uppermost in the minds of the
fair creatures. In another moment they
| were all back in the calcium light renewing
their eulogies of SalIie. going so far this
time as to declare that the admirable lady
in question attracted so much favorable at
|
way the chappies all would say There goes
| the real, real thing, you bet-she's always
| bright and gay" And, after having ex-
| toled the virtues of Sallie to such an extent
that there was simply nothing more that
could be said in praise of that exceptionally
| distinguished person, the maidens side
| walked off the stage once more and scam
| pered up the narrow fights of stairs to their
| dressing rooms, chattering with all their
| might-and with show of much indigna-
| tion-over the disquieting event of the morn
| ing-whatever it was.
The two principal comedians Of the show
| were now holding forth on the stage. One
! was made up to represent an Irishman, and
the other a Dutchman-of the usual stage
| types, of course. 1t was the business Of
! these performers to appear on the stage be-
tween the musical numbers of the burlesque
! and fill in the time while the chorus girls
were busily occupied in changing their cos
tunes by engaging in verbal misunderstand-
| ings, invariably leading up to that artistic
denouement where they would beat each
other with the ever-ready bladders and in
evitable "slap-sticks." and squirt streams