New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-24
ROUNDUP Of BEAUTIES
lust 1900 Want Jobs from Lew
Fields. Says "TruthfuIman."
BUSY DAY FOR THE CAMERA
Show Girls, Chorus Girls, Dane
ing Girls and Ponies Draw
Broadway Crowds.

Ever see roundup? No. not the or
thodox cowboy affair. with It's yelling
Westerners. wlld-eyed cattle and stamping
horses That's not the kind Of a round
ND" here specihed-not by jugful. This
event was billed as a ''pulchritudinous
roundup" and It fulfilled all expectations;
il was a thing of beauty-hfteen hundred
distinct and separate embodiments OF
beauty.
Now that the dictionaries have been
opened and the word "pulchritudinous
has been assimilated. light begins to
dawn, and interest grows by leaps and
| bounds Thought SO.
And it was all engineered by the press
agent, that strict historian Of fact--never
fancy. Word was sent out late Saturday
night that Ned Wayburn general stage
producer for Lew Fields. had jobs for
| twenty-five hundred show chorus and
dancing girls. These young women, IT was
announced, We're TO be engaged for places
in dozen musical productions this season.
and were ordered to report at the stage
entrance of the Broadway Theatre at IL
a. m. yesterday
The sly secrecy Of the press agent Is
seen here. Why should ne contne himself
to sending out word of the impending ava
lanche of feminine beauty on Broadway
to few newspapers? Why not stand on
the housetops and below it forth brazenly,
so that the general public might be on
| hand TO partake of the Joyous gathering Of
| beauty
Long before the scheduled hour the
tramp of high heeed boots was heard on
| Broadway. The morning sun flashed here
and there on gilded locks; IT FURNISHED
| with touch of Midas the raven rats" of
a Southern beauty. They came in twos,
| threes, fours and in punches. and as they
advanced all Broadway stopped and gazed
| This Of course. was distinctly distaste-
| full to the management of Lew Fields =
/ enterprises Members of the Fields staff
ran out on the street and hastily explained
| tc the onlookers that 1t was simply a
meeting Of candidates for the various pro-
/ auctions of Mr. Fields. The curious were
told II they would kindly form in double
ranks from curb to curb, and climb on
lampposts and other points Of vantage,
| they would make IL unnecessary for the
management to call the police. Really, IL
| was annoying, the way the crowds per-
| sisted I'm blocking the White Alley.
Couldn't something he done? Then some
thing was done.
4 few minutes more, and corps OF
tralred camera shooters employed by the
Fields management was on hand. For the
next few minutes nothing could be heard
on Broadway but the patter of French
heeled feet and the click of the camera
shutter
The girls were Of four types of physical
comeliness, viz. show. chorus, dancing ana
ponies" For technical purposes these
were subdivided into class "a class b,
class &C" and class ID They came from
all sections of the United States and Can
ada, and their types Of beauty were as nu-
merous as the flowers in May.
Inside the theatre were the roundup
boys Mr.. Fields's stage directors five in
number took their seats. each at a separate
table. Five imaginary aisles were then
drawn from the back wall Of the stage 10
the footlights, and the girls passed in order
down the asles. First they had 10 see Ned
Wayburn personally, and he designated
their classes, after which they were as
signed 70 different companies.
The companies which the girls will be
seen I'm are The Hen-Pecks, THE Never
Homes" "The Wife Hunters" THE Biga-
mists." "The Midnight Sons Titles
Nightmare" THE Singing Teacher" and
many others.