El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-15
The Chorus Girl of Today Is
Different From the One
of Long Age.


TEW YORK, Jan. 15.-The chorus
N girl of today is athletic. She
= doesn't eat more lobster or drink
more champagne than the average city
dweller Of comfortable means. She gets
her eight hours sleep regularly and is
on the whole Just an average good
looking. sprightly, attractive lump OF
young WOmanhood. not at all an out Of
the ordinary person from another
world
This is the change which has come
over the theaters in the last 10 years
II isn't to be said that the old. odd, ex-
travagant type isn't still TO be found
But the typical chorus girl no longer
regards herself as a Bohemian. as a
person engaged in strange adventure
but rather in the class with the COM
mon. hard working. school teacher.
business woman, or male bread winner
The vogue Of athletics probably had
/ more to do with the change than any
thing else. A decade ago the chorus
girl habitually was a creature of Ian
Suor or hectic activity. She lived fast
and high wore unusual clothes, and
was valued both by herself and her
stage manager, according to the num-
Der Of stage JOhnuies' who laid their
bouquets and perfumed notes or her
dressing room
The fashion has changed. in chorus
girls as in almost everything else.
ASK any stage manager If he didn't
consider the stately Juno, with the
picture hat and the grand manner. the
cream OF his chorus ten years ago
And ask him If today he doesn't prize
most highly the medium. lively girl.
rot too tall. too short. too plump. or
too thin-the girl who looks as well in
skiing or bathing costume as CARRIED
Tor montmartre or spendthrifts dawn
supper. He's sure TO say yes.
The typical chorus girl Of today can
swim and skate and ride and drive a
motor .
out Of door life she leads has changed
her in almost every other essential
4 hilarious show which might have
almost been dubbed refined vaude-
vile" Is at the Liberty theater with
The Blue Pierrots."
From the name one might conclude
offhand that the origin was French.
But the British twist OF the tongue OF
almost every member OF the caste
would soon set such suspicious at rest.
The performers displayed several
good voices and the new songs they
had to offer were more tuneful than
usual 4 novelty was the lack Of an
orchestra. but the skillful pianist who
acted as aecompanist more than made
There are five "Pierrots' clad in
blue and white and three "Pierettes''
wearing gowns Of white and black
How the person who is responsible for
the name got eight blue Pierrots out Of
this is a mystery
One of the Pierettes was plump and
pleasing mezzo- soprano. Miss Marjorie
Riley. who delighted the audience with
her ballads and another was Miss Alma
Gray, a sprightly soprano and accOmp-
lished clog dancer
The cleverest of the men were Nor
man Blume and Robert White \ skit
on the moving picture shows and au-
diences was very well received. also the
burlesque on a British Village Con-
cert"
There has just come to the Harris
theater a most somber and heavy play
which nevertheless has a great appeal
to the audience OF today In The
DEVILS Garden the story is told OF
the struggle in the life of a man who
murdered another and who for ten
years conceals his crime which his soul
struggles within him to forget the
The play was dramatized from the
novel Of the same name written by
William B. Maxwell The stage version
was prepared by Edith Ellis She de-
parts from the printed story in allow
ing the audience to know early in the
plot the fact that William Dale is the
guilty man. In the novel this fact is
concealed from the reader until almost
the last
Due to the artistry OF Arthur Hop
kins a notably beautiful production
with many unique exhibitions OF stage
craft has been put before US and this
does a great deal to relieve the de-
pressing details of the plays story.
Lyn Harding also does very credit
able work in the role of Dale. while
Geraldine O'Brien who made good In
The Miracle Man" also adds to her
mounting reputation.
The victim of the murder on which
the play hinges is Edward Barradine.
a man Of vile character. who Dale
learns has debauched the latter's wife
in her youth. Most of the weak points
in the drama are traceahle TO the DIFF
ficulty, deserving as a problem the
fore the audience an inward struggle
which has to be concealed from the
very actors on the stage with the con-
science stricken man. In this the
playwright has done creditably, but
she has not wholly succeeded.
Lillian Albertson. Alice Auguarde
Butler and Charles Y. Butler all help
in making the production a success,
from the artistic viewpoint at least