The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-22
Drank Deshon.)

Crank Deshon,)
a type; of chorus girl that is no;
necessarily a novelty in any organiza.
Pest. Nevertheless, she is entitled TIC
description and an essay on her frail.
ties and pecnliarities will not be II OF
place.
She is not exactly desirable TO the
| peaceloving and rule-abiding choris-
tiers, but to a few who look on the
bright side Of every thing. and exist
2on!y on the frivolities OF life, she is
a thing of beauty and a Joy forever.
| She disturbs the equanirnity Of all.
from the manager down 10 the prop
Ierty man. and jars the sensibilities of
those who would. under other circutn-
stances. be sedatc. She will poke fun
at a shrine, sing coon songs in church,:
and her forte Is sacrtlegc at any time
or place. She. of course is no a bad
girl at heart. and right down at the
rock bottom OF her conscience, prob
ably is well-disposed toward humanity
in general. But there is something
in her makeup that stirs things, and
she must carry on. The boys call her
The Village Cut Up" and this sort
of comic non1-de-pl,in1o sticks TO her
through thick and chin. Her innun-
does are seathing, aud sometimes she.
says things that will make even the
manager vince. She is no respector
of persons, especially il they are of
foreign origin. II ennuf pervades the
atmosphere, she is depended upon to
create the sound-waves of laughter
and rufle the calm and content of the
peace of mind OF her copartners.
From a business standpoint, she is
usually desirable-good vocal ability,
magnetic and n competent member of
the aggregation. In the hotels and on
the cars. she assumes her prerosative
and fully earns the appellation of
pest" She is up to all sorts of pranks
and nobody escapes her when Ii OPP
portunity presents itself. TT the Mis-.
tress of the Wardrobe, h is unusual
Iy annoying and many are the COM
plants that come in to the MANAGE
ment for her carelessness in taking
care il her costumes. Her tardy ap-
at the eat and many 9TH
things hat would be overlooked by
the aforesaid mistress with a less aS-
member of the company. One
of her favorite pranks is to enlist the
of fifteen or twenty small
who congregate round the stage
door,, and tell them the name of the
aforesaid imDresario of the gowns and
engage their services on the yening of
the performance to sell her photo-l
graphs. Now, as a rule, the ward-t
robe mistress is not the most YOUTH
full member of the company, neither is
she the most beautiful. So many have
seen better days. but she is getting
the evoluting period. Once she
was as beautiful as any of them, but
never having discovered the secret of
the elixir of life, she is getting toward
seer and yellow, and in conse
quence, is not pleased at practical
that imply OF accentuate the
fact that her beauty is impaired.
Another one of the Pests" favor
tie pranks is to stuff cotton in the
of the shoes of her sister mem
OF the chorus, and she has been
Known to slyly C them to the floor,
many a girl has been late upon a
scene, because she waited until the
asst moment to put her shoes on, and
to get a screw driver to separate
hem from the board beneath
Or one occasion she altered the
ime of call for rehearsal by simply
making it a half hour later and the
tase manager probably does not
NOW to this day but that he made the
himself, and naturally as
ribbed it to his own faultiness of mem
and as everybody but the stage
manager, proflted by the change, there
no telling tales out of school.
Another of her favorite digressions
5 when the company is leaving town.
nd the station is thronged with the
who congregate at the depot
look the company over and see IL
hey are as beautiful as they appeared $
n the stage the night before. IT the |
rain happens to be standing there, =
the Rubes get too persistent, she =
up a story of a man being !
illed in a baggage car-cut in several =
ieces by an accident along the road =
land after she has given them a
ing account of the terrible affair, she !"
"a Ire q wa " h1If II iC a safe ~rraSaJI1n-t -