The Washington herald., 1912-08-25
DID THE CHORUS
WIN NEWPORT?
Just Ask and See-Girls Of .The
Merry Countess" Company
Have Gay Time.
CHARMED MILLIONAIRES
AWAY FROM THE DANCE
vanderbilts Provided Champagne
Pitchers of It-and All Had
"Some Time"

New York, Aug. 24.-Two dozen chorus
girls and a lot of principals In The
Merry Countess" company rolled wearfly
off a special train at the Grand Central
Station. The train had brought them
from Newport, where last night they put
on their show for the Cornelius Wander
bilt record-breaking Oriental ball.
"Oh, what a night" moaned one cho-
rus girl.
Never again," sighed another.
And they gave us champagne
Nothing but champagne-and In pitch
ersr'
And the men wanted us to stay and
have a moonlight bathing party
Amid such explanations the members
of the company set of for their re-
spective apartments in search for enough
sleep to get themselves into shape to
work matinee and night to-day.
Some Dancers.
Two chorus girls didn't escape. Aided
and abetted by the Shubert press agent
were corralled by a reporter. and over q
wanted for breakfast, thank you-they
told all.
You ought to see those millionaire
women dance" began Lorraine.
"I used to think I couldn't dance"
Mildred-who has big brown eyes
broke in; but after seeing those women
get up in front OF that crowd and make
a mess of what they called dancing, 1
think ! ought to have a medal
And such skinny legs! O-o-oh!' and
Lorraine covered her face with her
hands at the thought. "In one Of their
dances they wore skirts-you know. kind
of balloon, yama-yamas effects-that
reached only little below their knees"
Just like toothpicks," observed MIL
dred.
Figuresf Oh, Mercy.
Exactly" agreed Lorraine-who is the
girl with so much ginger that you may
have noticed dancing beside her sister
in Casino shows the last three or four
years.
IF I had a figure like they have I'd
soak a few diamonds and buy me a few
pair of symmetricals before 1 tried TO
get out and dance" advised Mildred.
But 1 must tell you about the men,
said Lorraine.
Yes, tell him about the men," said
Mildred.
They'd make great chorus men," COM
plemented Lorraine, "and such Johns they
areI You know they put us all out In
to eat our supper. There weren't any
of the guests there when we started. but
one by one you could see the men
sneaking out under the trees and coming
around to pess the time of day. Before
we got through every chorus girl had a
millionaire John"
Harvard Boys Keep on.
And they were all millionaires, too"
said Mildred. None of these Harvard
boys. They were afraid to come out"
Their mothers were with them" Lor-
raine said. And take II from me, a
Harvard boy in Newport is a lot differ
vnt from a Harvard boy in New York"
I'VE saw a couple we knew" Mildred
laughed, and they lodged around and
pretended they didn't see U.s. They were
afraid We might speak to them and get
them in bad with mamma
Then Mr. Vanderbilt, he came out,
too" giggled Lorraine.
Don't say anything about Mr.. Van
derbilt," Mildred reproved. He was
perfectly proper. He didn't speak to
anybody but the principals"
But the rest" exulted Lorraine, "Oh,
this is too good to tell"
60 on; go on hissed the reporter.
They wanted US all to stay and have
a moonlight bathing party on the beach
Can you beat it? Said they'd get away
all right, and throw OF their fancy cos
tunes"
No Bathing Party.
Promised TO take us to New York in
their automobiles in time to get us here
Cor the matinee" explained Mildred.
And some of the girls were willing to
do it," said Lorraine
But II seems that Morris Gest saved !
the chorus and perhaps prevented the |
breaking up of the Vanderbilt ball
He was afraid all the time that some |
thing would start" Lorraine said. He |
was sent up there 10 watch us and See |
that We all got back safely And when |
he saw how things were going he came /
around and told us all to run for the /
t-ain.s When he made that announce
Inent everybody laughed at him-million-
aires and chorus girls. But he argued. |
and finally we all felt sorry for him and |
told the millionai-es We really couldn't |
stay any longer: although the pitchers !
# champagne still seemed to be staying
full, no matter how much was poured
,lrt Of them"