The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-26

sicians struck up two-step and dur ing the entire march to Arlington no funeral notes were heard. As the col umn entered the cemetery the Marine band played a dirge.
 Those persons who have been used to slow-moving funeral processions have been somewhat shocked at the faster speed which is made, especially 1 when automobiles take the place of carriages; and they think lively marches when the military parades as an escort of honor indicates a lack of respect for the dead. But such it is not. A long march with "dead'' music is not only trying upon the men on foot, but it is much more trying upon the bereaved who sit yelled through the sad ordeal. Decorum will always be observed by those par ticipating in a state or military funeral, but the matter of how fast or how slow the music be may prop eriy refer itself to psychology. The funeral marches of the master composers, now that they are little in vogue at the Hast obsequies," will be heard oftener in the future on concert programmes. One of Beethoven's greatest inspirations is the funeral march in the "Eroica" symphony; and who will ever grow tired of Chopin's march, or in a smaller mould, Men delssohn's tender march found in "Songs Without Words s?" Mythical Motors
 of Chorus Girls
 Mh1 AYBE, after all, the chorus girl 9VO has been maligned. She has not lacked defenders who have in- sisted that she works hard, lives hard and conducts herself about as well as could be expected but the impression prevails in the rural districts, and in cities as well, that the average chorus girl rides to the theatre in her own automobile, dimes invariably at the most expensive cafes in company with some millionaire or other and has jewels comparable to those of any so- ciety queen.
 The New York correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch quotes man whose opinion of the chorus girl has weight. This man is attorney for lone of the largest theatrical producing firms in the United States" He says:
 The truth is, there are not more
 than half a dozen working chorus
 girls in the United States who can
 own automobiles and--as for val
 uable baubles few possess the real
 article; they are mostly phoney.
 I know of but two girls in New
 York who own automobiles, all
 though there may be one or two
 
 chine through the generosity of 8
 wealthy brother, and the other re-
 ceived hers from her mother. The
 average working chorus girl is liv-
 ing in her little room frying her
 own egg each morning and won
 dering if her job is going to last
 long enough for her to pay the
 debts she has incurred for neces-
 sities while she was out of work.
 She has about as much chance of
 owning an automobile as w. I
 Bryan has of being elected Presi-
 dent. If she owns any real dia-
 monds or pearls the chances are a
 hundred to one that her uncle"
 has them in his safe
 Evidently Grayce de Chatelaine, who grew up as Maggie Sweeney of Cincinnati; Clarice de We're, who was Becky Finkelheim of the New York East Side, and the other chorus girls with fancy stage names, as we'll as those who stick to the family pa- tronymic, have been made the vic tins of musical comedy comedians and jokesmiths, who credit them with enjoying luxuries they've never had and, in majority of cases, since all can't marry into gilded circles, prob ably never will have.
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