The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-05-18
Dramatic Critic Of tho New York
Telegraph.
(Copyrighted)

mllllOnalre VINO has more money
than experience. She is also shrink
ing young thing of fruga. habits and
long line of charms, the result of con-
slant vigilance. If we believe the daily
prints, she is invariably born of par
ents socially prominent, of culture and
refinement so great that she recoils in
horror from the mention of table
leg, has a couple of quarts of dia-
monds, two automobiles and a fuzzy
white dog. She is also willowy, thirsty
and hungry. Her food is never any
thing but lobster a la Newburg, cham
payne and oysters, and she knows
more millionaires than Col. D. Mann.
That. Dilly, is the newspaper estimate
Of the young woman, fed by the fevered
imagination of the press agent who la
bors ceaselessly in her interest"
"But is she really all those things,
you have taken pains to enumerate,
dear uncle?" asked little billy.
'Not always, my boy. l have had a
II mean I knew a man who had a
large experience with chorus girls, and
er-judging from his remarks, they are
an entirely different species. The fact
that they occasionally marry a mil
ltonaire is not to be set down to their
total discredit, for, poor young things,
they frequently know not what they
do. To their plain untutored minds, a
millionaire is the equal of many men,
and frequently as good as several. BY
many of these girls he is almost con-
sidered honest enough to go to con-
gress, which, Dilly, will exhibit to you
the simple nature of these poor girls"
"But do they all come from high
social positions, dear uncle?" inquired
Dilly.
THAT my poor boy is pleasant lit
tie fiction. The average chorus girl is
as familiar with social matters as a
wild bull Is with the inner mind of a
Standard Oil director. AS to their de-
scent can but quote a remark of my
dear friend, Oscar Hammerstein, who
recently said: Servants are not to be
had. There are no more servants. In
fact they are all in the chorus Once,
Dilly, witnessed-er, mean my
friend witnessed performance of a
play from behind the scenes. To my
I mean his-utter establishment, the
coarse individual who presided over
the affair took occasion to reprimand
young woman of the chorus by re-
marking that she might return to the
laundry. That, Dilly, shed great
light upon the origin of chorus girls.
Not but what chorus girls are useful.
Were it not for them I am puzzled to
think what our young men would do
for amusement. There would be no
stage doors to hang about, and in fact
nothing to take the place of that pas
time. And here. my dear nephew, is
a curious fact. Rich young men of
good social position will heap atten-
tons. presents and personal service
upon girls they would not look at
twice were they not upon the stage"
care all chorus girls actresses, dear
uncle?" asked Dilly.
mo, billy. Just on the stage, that's
all. Few of them would know the first
thing about the art of Boota If it ran
rapidly around a corner and made
signs in front of them. But for all
that they have their uses. Some of
them become Coreyized and in this
way the poor divorce lawyers manage
to exc out a, miserable existence. 9th
ers rise to the great height and prom
inence of marrying the delicatessen
dealer around the corner, while others
develop marvellous talent for chaflng
dish work, and in time graduate to the
counters Of the dairy lunch. Still 9TH
ers manage to do very well with their
position. They amass wealth and such
trit1es, which only goes to show you
that a chorus girl Of careful habits and
frugal disposition may rise in time to
q position Of ahauence, and ease. One
can very easily maintain q carriage
and an expensive suite Of apartments.
my boy. on . salary Of fifteen per, pro-
vided one is careful It may seem dif-
dcult to you at hrst, but you possibly
lack experience.
"Then again thers IL always the
chance Of making . great name for
oneself by having ones husband stolen
by his indignant relatives, which will
enable the deserted wife to go into
vaudeville Of . salary that ID positive
II ont Of MI proportion to the value
received. ! may say. my dear nephew,
that tho chorus Girl has on moro than
one occasion disrupted some important
bit Of political history, and that she