The sun., 1916-10-22

eleven myself" Miss Reed seemed
proud to claim her twenty-one years:
n this Is the seniority that guides
the American destiny Of these sixteen
English lasses. the Century Girls",
Were all l.Ale ri, 81 admitted Mis-
tress Mary. I'm fact. | don't believe
our hsights vary more than the frac-
ton Of an inch. That may be one of
the reasons why We get on SO well to-
gether-for We do. you know. Among
us there are no tall girls TO show SUI
pcriority by their inches. thus provok-
ing the small girls " gc-their
sharp tongues. ! think the long and
the short Of IT. IL responsible for IA
great many troubles IN companies. The
Century Girls being Of equal height,
need fear no trouble ON that score"
And how about the fat and the lean
/ Of it," she was asked.
You'll never believe il. but there's
not Two ounces difference in our
weight laughed Miss Read. YOU
know. we We're all weig ned before
leaving London. and we tiuctuated
within about half "a pound If n an
other. But now whether ii was the
trip over that did il or the American
air. or the idea OF being heterogeneous
az the Century Girls We all seem TO
have come down to common weight.
II surprised me as much as 1, seems 10
astonish you'll eve had the scales
tested to make sure they were in
order.
Most OF us have the same COM
plexions. for another similarity. All
OF our girls could pass as being fair
blond. you cali It in the States-ex-
cept myself"
But your tastes" queried the fren-
zied interviewer. upset by this idea Of
sixteen absolute replicas. Surely you
don't all like the same things"
"Things?" repeated Mistress Mary.
What sort OF things do you mean"
"Why-er-general things"
That's rather vague" reproved the
, little English commander, with her
musical Lancashire laugh. 80 ! can
| only answer you In kind-we must be
as much alike in tastes as in other
things. Else we could never live to-
gethrr, sixteen OF us. as we do-now.
could we?"
Give to-gether!"
iVS, W I'BiNu '"pN' Niai
Eve have a whole set OF flats over
here in a big apartment house in
Sixty-second street. engaged them
for the girls. We keep house. four
girls in each fiat, and We do all u
housework too"
Sixteen girls-all young. all pretty,
all Of "a height and weight and COM
plexion-all with amiable dispositions
and Irresistible Lancashire laughter,
Sixteen %girls--all with talents that
| have raised them to the ranks of the
worlds best dancers. No wonder the
| Dillingham; Ziegfeld management he
| slowed upon this prize package the
| honorary title OF THE Century Girls"
| Florence Walton will wear stockings
when she appears with her dancing
| partner, Maurice. at the premiere OF
1.-THE Century Girl at the Century
| Theatre on November 2. but nobody in
the audience will be convinced that
she Is not bare legged unless he COR
she) happens to know that the last
word in sartorial smartness DEGREES
that with a decollette gown IA woman's
stockings must match her flesh. in
STEAD OF the gown llSeII, Ms mas Hltn-
erto been the rule.
Miss Walton's flesh. according to the
diagnosis Of the Cabot SPurs, who have
created all the gowns she will wear in
''The Century Girl" runs the gamut Of
greens that are to be seen in n half
ripe olive. her instep and ankle being
marked by extraordinarily deep ones.
These varying shades of green are be-
ing reproduced in Miss Walton's spider
web silk stockings by expert dyers,
Lima ~Abarbanell. the star OF Flora
Bella the new musical success at the
Casino. claims the tIllest family tree
in all the land. Miss Abarbanell has
traced her ancestry back through the
mis,s Of ages to King David. Yes. the
very same shepherd boy who took
on" Goliath and devoted his declining
years In writing Psalms. Ever ad-
v~enturous In quest Of new lands, It u