Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-31

chance 60 haul big special want TO set
It off their hands as quickly as possible. 1
When THE Barnyard Romeo" company 1
broke up its three weeks stand in Chicago
Sunday night and started for Omaha TO
open the new Morris theater here, the
train was waiting at the Union depot and
the members OF the chorus numbered fifty
odd, ranging i'm size from broilers Is years
old and twelve hands high to the show
girls who pose statuesquely in every move
ment and would never hurry to catch the
golden chariot, all went right on board
The Union depot was enjoying a dismal
Sunday evenings quiet when the fifty
happened and proceeded to tangle up their
own sleeping arrangements. Conductor
O'Bren. expert with complaints, but en-
tirey unsophisticated in treating the artis-
tic temperament. thought he could settle
matters by reading to each lassle the num-
Der Of her car and the number OF her
berth from an official list that he held in
his hand. Far from such. That was the
merest beginning of his troubles in each
particular case.
After going and getting two or three
porters to find the berth for her, the girl
always came back Sometimes there ives
reason, sometimes It was Just because
ShN NOuiN nut Ndht AudN W. IL was llON
hers" The starting of the train was all
that ever got the bunch to get on the
cars, and then there were several who
almost pulled the heads off their toy ter
riers when they jerked them onto the
platform.
On theatrical special the dining room
is open all night, or at least until its sup
plies are exhausted. This is not because
anybody is hungry, but because the sensa-
ton Of greatest luxury on a train is feed
ing and actors are long on luxury when
they can get it. The dining car of the
| "Barnyard" special was a banquet hall
until the Chantecler in every barnyard
that was passed cacEled in protest But
after the chorus girls were all supposed
to be dreaming Of raises in salary and the
| last gay party of the trains aristocracy
| had gone back to the stateroom sleeper the
conductors troubles began all over again.
| Contrary to the general opinion of the
critics who murmur from the front row,
Shes 40 IL she's a day." the chorus girls
in many shows and in this show in partic-
ular are little more than children. The
youngest one who plays a part with a
most enga ging limp is 10, and many more
are no older.
Fifty girls Of that age are subject to a
most amazing set of vagaries and the
train crew suffers Carsckness was an
epidemic, and along in the middle of the
morning when they began to wake up
hunger manifested itself in wild cries for
food.
The conductor OF the dining car had
unwisely consented to allow one of the
girls who was sick to have some fruit
brought back to her, and the other forty
nine comfortable and hungry stuck their
heads out between the curtains and de-
manded that they be allowed the same
privileges. Since every chorus girl is an
artistic, and believe me. dearie," she
would never be working in the back row
II she got her just recognition, the artistic
Temperament is an ever present factor.
But the conductor was obdurate, and they
had to get UP and file into the dining car
When she presents herself at the break
fast table, the chorus girl is usually adorned
with a huge automobile veil which she
wears bound tightly around her wavy locks
and streaming behind like banner. Just
why this is a morning garb no masculine
mind could understand, but it is explained
in general way by the fact that the max.
ing of a coifcure is expensive and time
consuming. and when it is once done it IL
preserved as long as possible.