The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-27
At Chicago.

season on April %.
AT Chicago.
Sam Bernard continues his success
full engagement at the Illinois in THE
Rich Mr.. Hoggenheimer."
Seats are still selling for two weeks
in advance at the La Sale for THE
Time, The Place and The Girl The
four hUndredth performance of this
play at this theater will occur within
week
Lew Fields all star company in
"A bout Town and the travesty on
THE Music Master will remain at
the Garrick for two more weeks.
Forbes Robertson and Gertrude Ell
lott begin a two weeks engagement
on April 90 at the Powers in Bernard
Shaw's satirfcal comedy drama
Caesar and Cleopatra"
Dustin Farnum begins a two weeks
engagement at the Grand on Sunday
in THE Virginian-''
One of the comic opera hits OF the
season, Two Little Girls" is at the
Studebaker for an indefinite engage
men.
George NJ. Cohan's Fifty Miles
From Boston opens an engagement
at the Colonial on Sunday
What's in a Chorus Girls Name
The average chorus girl delights in
her name. Whether she believes that
fancy name enhances her value to
the management OF whether she be-
lieves that it makes her more attrac-
tive to those in front no one seems to
know. But she must have name
that is so out of the ordinary that II
will attract attention The late "B1n
Hall had an album of names which he
had gathered from all sides 1t is too
bad that he did not live long enough
to see and hear some of the names
which your modern show girl assumes
In the Knight for Day company,
which boasts of having the real and
only American beauty chorus, 1t
seems to have been the regular pro-
ceeding for the girls to change their
names A comparison Of the pay roll
with the roster of the company as 1t
appears on the program shows some
very amusing examples of chorus girls
changing their applications
Idtitia Litta owns up to the real
name Of Gallagher. but she eschewed
that name because she did not think
it would sound right to her admirers
in front Only a few days ago she
asked the manager of the company to
rechristen her-this time to Delight
Gibson. Alma Queente is known in
real life as Minnie kreItlung. Char-
lotte Prize appears on the pay roll as
Lottie Jones' Paula Pauly is of for
eign extraction and refuses to even tell
her real name. Sophie Miller is not
ashamed of her real name, nor is Elsie
Moore. Lillian Murphy is not ashamed
Z
iously looking about for a new name
to substitute which will lift her out
Of that class Marjorie Ffeldbrooke is
proud of her name, but some one told
her that 1t was too long for the cleo
trio sign if she should ever became a
star. and now she is thinking Of alb
breviating it, Opal Scott took her
name because ii was short and so did
Molly Hall Winifred Watson has a
husband whose name is Meyer. but
she shuns the use of IL as long as she
is q SHOW girl Clara Clarke is one
who boasts of using her real name on
the stage. and so is Mae Rorke. Mayme
Campbell admits that the writing of
her Bohemian name would almost put
a typewriter out of alignment while
Grace DeMar insists that her French
name belongs to her rightfulIy.
Last week a young woman appIfed for
a position in the company and gave her
name as Jewel Vanderbilt The stage
manager declared that he thought she
would be too expensive a proposition for
the company with a cognomen such as
that
As rule the girls will seek TO adopt
q French name-to give them class. -
as they say IF the manager of the
average musical show were to make the
men are constantly demanding it would
keen the programme printer busy all
week
the men, as a rule. do not change
their names unless it happens to be one
which is so foreign as to be unpro-
nounceable, or SO long as to make It
unwieldly. It IS seldom indeed that the
young man on the stage takes a middle
initial This is because there IS a ira
dition among the stage people that most
great artists have no middle name or
initial Nat c Goodwin and George NJ.
Cohan are. however, two notable excep-
lions to this rule
There's everything IN a name" said
one chorus girl when she was asked
why she had changed her name. 1T
means a whole lot to US A pretty name
goes a long way in attracting attention.
both from the public and from the
mana gers 1t forms a big part in our
career"