Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-27
Pay Runs from $12 to $22 a Week

There never is any shortage in Choir
us girls for the Joe Weber chorus,
because of the girls in that organiza-
tion none of any standing whatever
gets less than $22 week, while in
other organizations the common or
garden variety of chorus girl Is rated
at SIS per week, which in burlesque
drops to SIG, and in long city runs even
to $14 and S12 sometimes.
The Joe Weber chorus, as we'll as the
Lew Fields chorus and the Anna Held
chorus, is remarkable for it's beauty.
But a chorus girl that only has her
beauty to recommend her doesn't have
such a grand success these days, even
though there is a famine in chorus
girls. That she had only beauty was
what prevented Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
from having anything like a success
full career on the stage. She had a
manager George w. Lederer, who is
called the best stage director in tho
world, but although he tried her in
1.-THE Wild Rose" and gave her every
opportunity, he found that she would
ogle the audience and that she had no
graces of department. On the other
hand, there have been plenty of chorus
girls whose success has been due more
to their dancing or singing ability
than to their beauty.
Some of them are members of that
caste which has daughters in the show.
There are several cases of this. The
same chorus may contain mother and
daughter. Comm Through the Rye"
is a musical comedy of which this is
true. George Washington Jr." has
a chorus that is noteworthy because
of the fact that four of Mrs. Jerry
Cohan's nieces are in it,
Actresses Graduate from the Chorus
Lulu CHASER came up out of the
chorus So did Marie Cahill and Edna
May and Phyllis Dare, the new Eng
lish beauty who has succeeded Miss
May in 1.-The Belle of Mayfair" and
Della Fox, and almost every other
musical comedy or light operate star
of any consequence. The chorus also
has furnished the dramatic stage with
leading women, as in the case of Marie
Doro, who is William Gillette's leading
woman in "Clarice," and Frances Bel
mont who was Charles Hawtrey's s
leading woman, and Edna Goodrich,
who is Nat Goodwin's leading
woman in THE Genius" She
was a Weber & Fields chorus girl.
In that chorus she danced next to
Indiola Arnold, who in privtae life
was the wife of Norman Selby. better
known as kid" Mccoy the pugilist,
who has turned jeweler and automobile
salesman.
One would think that when the
chorus is such greenhouse for stars
there would be no trouble in finding
young women enough to complete the
quota Of every musical show in the
country.
All the American chorus girls have
not been shipped out of the country,
although Mr.. Lederer took a large
consignment abroad with THE Belle
of New York" although more went
over for Henry w. Savage in "The
Prince of Pilsen," and although many
others have been sent across the water
for other musical shows.
One troupe of blondes invaded Cuba
last winter with "Floradora," and
about the same time company made
up in San Francisco went to Japan
and China to play Weber and Fields
old pieces. But at the same time
there have been importations all the
time. England has sent plenty of
chorus girls to this country. Some
have been of the tall and stately vari-
ety. typified by Marie Studholme.