New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23
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Poor "FlOrOd0ra''!
Lonely Girls of Famous Sextet Say Old
Friends Shy at ''Million-
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jerk nod at their audience in the re-
vlval at the Century Theater these
nights. They're simply gorgeousl Now.
They're being made lonely because
they have been made popular. That is.
the sextet of twenty years ago has not
been forgotten. When the great re-
vival at the Century was announced the
friends of the young women selected for
beauty from every part of the United
States began to think that old friends
! might be an incumbrance on these girls
VINO now were to associate solely with
mlllionaires and millionares' sons. It's
just as If one of your best friends sud
denly became the partner in one of the
largest banking concerns on Wall Street
and you began to sit down and wonder
whether Bill would have any more time
to spend with poor little you-now that
Bill was so much more occupied than
before. Did you ever experience the
leave-taking of friend alongside YOU
who was going into bigger things, into,
something just little too high for you
to reach comfortably? And did you
feel as if-well, perhaps you'd better
just drop out and let him go ahead and
be unhampered by you?
That's the way some Of the friends
of the girls who go to make up the
new sextet feel. At least, that's the
way Dana Sykes, one of the members
of the new sextet and. incidentally.
personal line may be permitted. a
most charming young woman, feels
about 1T. Miss Sykes, whose stage
career before she was engaged for the
Florodora sextet was q brilliant one
and whose talents arc not in any de-
gree made fully evident in her part
in the production at the Century, is
/ of the opinion that the only way in
which she will be able to regain the
old friends she once possessed will be
to some day drop out Of the cast OF
the production, certify to her friends
that she has had no proposals from
millionaires, nor, incidentally, has mar
r1ed one, has no intention Of marrying
one, and does not aspire to marry one
Then, she thinks, and only then, will
she be enabled to- show to the folks
back home and to her numerous friends
along Broadway and throughout the
city, that she really has not been "car-
ried away" as result Of being selected
to take part in this little group Of
beautiful girls.
u suppose it Is because my friends
think / haven't time to talk with then.
or that they think my friends, now tina.
l am in the 'Florodora' sextet, consist
only Of rich young chaps who might
not agreeably fall into association with
Others" she says. "At least, I haven't
had telephone call for weeks from
girl friends who used to talk with ma
at least three times a week.
Il had men friends, too" and she
smiled, "who once upon a time felt
quite secure in my presence, and they
weren't exactly sparing with the time
they spent with me at shows and visit
ing with me, but SEES nothing Of them
now. I just sat down the other day
and wrote down list ct the young
people 1 used to SEQ SO oissu. and
there's not q one Of them who calls
me any more. I have decided it's be-
cause I'm supposed to be entirely out
Of their class now. But that's. CT
course, an absurd thing.
why. III tell you the truth. Not
single, solitary millionaire has pro-
posed to me-"
What do you mean by q Single
millionsire?" was the counter question.
Now you're joking with me-" she
replied, but I'm entirely serious about
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