The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-12

| ready money customers as to give them a pleasant look. But these are usually managers who need the money very
 badly. Naturally these hollow-chested lpatrons of the drama run chances or
 getting married now and then Dunn's agency is slip-shod and uncertain in gathering news about personal imam clal matters if you put its best efforts against a fifteen minute conference be-
 tween those members of the first row who are going to Reisenweber to-
 night with some nice boys" And has the average chorus girl a keen ambi- ton to succeed in her professionY She
 has indeed. It is, in fact, her middle
 name. And her profession Is to get
 rich husband. Dancing and wearing grease paint is merely the means to an end. The average smart" chorus girl is a clever, keen witted, cool-headed, intelligent young person, whose pose is pretty thoughtlessness and whose pur-
 pose is deadly and direct. She is so far the intellectual superior of the "Johns' who flock round her that she has her selection roped, thrown and tied before he's got past the stage of wondering if she'll really come to sup per with him again after the dissatis- faction she expressed last time with the way he combed his hair. The game is so onesided that it's hardly fair. Broadway never feels a more powerful desire to chuckle than when some law yer files data in court about an ex- chorus girl client whose trust has been cruelty betrayed by the son of a mil- lionaire.
 But you've got to give the "Johns' credit for one thing, at least. They are consistent. They go right to the finish without running out at the wa ter jump or anything else One of them who had his limousine buzzing around stage doors for weeks while he stood with an expression of suspense as close as the doorman would let him stand for dollar, finally communicated the fact to a roadway theatre chorus girl that he was simply crazy to meet one
 of her friends in the same company. He was immediately informed that the other girl hardly ever went out at all" and would probably be offended if anyone suggested introducing her to
 a man whose name all the girls, etc. He paid for a trip to Europe for the first girl, in order to get an in troduction to the second. The show ran all summer at the Broadway. The John" took two seats by the week, and sat through every performance, in- cluding special matinees, sometimes with his hat in the second seat and
 sometimes with a friend to whom he imparted from time to time critical observations about how the show was going that night Then the chorus girl went up to the Winter Garden. The "John" bought two seats there and kept on In Churchills, one night, he left his pocketbook containing four or five hundred dollars in the wash room
 and when he discovered his loss he ran hatless to the Winter Garden box of fee to notify them that he had lost his tickets for the week and that he posi- lively must have his seats or two oth- CTS equally as far front. Then he went back, pale but relieved, to inquire if they had found the money. He didn't
 marry the chorus girl. She was per-
 suaded by his parents that he was too
 young to marry. She has retired from
 the stage and has nice home down on Long Island, which she bought just after her breach of promise suit was
 nipped in the bud.
 Little Ethel Lorraine may be weep ing bitterly in her humble lodgings for her lost boy, Belmont, but her asso- ciates look upon her as made woman.