The Washington herald., 1920-05-30
New York City
BIZ o. 0. Mcintyre

coming more -CoIuptcA otA 80 f---1-
for the show girls who hitter into
New York from the provinces and
bring with them dreams Of miliion-
aires and pocket-bulging oil mag
Mates. motor cars studded with
pearls. costly necklaces and French
chateaus.
Theatrical producers are 4 fint-
hearted lot. They not only demand
beauty but intelligence. The girl
! who simply wants to be show
girl hasn't chance. She must
have Ambitions to progress, She
must know a little French. a
knowledge Of English. how to sing
and how to dance.
| The producers have awakened
to the fact that too many girls are
4 simply using the stage as means
to marriage. They spend thou
, sands Advertising them and then
( they skip awaytwith some million
aire to a FTorentine tilia and live
happilg-for a month or so anyway.
4 A year ago six beautiful show
girls deserted the stage for the al
/ tar, They had had several years Of
1 training and had just arrived. Now
the first question producer asks
a show girl prospect is: do you
want to go on the stage or are you
just hunting q meal ticketg-
meaning husband.
| There was one beautiful show
| girl who had cost a certain mana
ger a snug fortune. She was just
! about to attain electric lights
that is stardom. She came from a
Brooklyn department store.
| She was untutored and a diamond
in the rough. The manager paiu
/ for two years in cloistral study of
stage classics, where she learned
French Tor indebted Moliere, Ger
man and Spanish. A play had been
secured for her. She was to become
a world star and tour the principal
cities on both continents
While the play was in rehearsal
at Atlantic City. the prospective
star fell in love with a hotel clerk
and at midnight skipped over to
Philadelphia to a parson. The next
day the manager got a telegram
telling him that his star had de-
cided to quit the stage.
And she cost me $50. .0O0.r. he said
AS he tore the telegram to bits.
So II isn't easy to get job as
show girl any more even il one
happens to be beautiful. The main
thing Is to convince the manager
that you are going to stay on the
stage and study and work and not
frolic around on broadway.
Nathan Straus, a prominent New
York Jew. and his wife are sailing
next week for the Holy Land and
will remain there for year.
Rumors that he was going to be-
come the first president of the new
Zionist republic have been en-
| phatically denied. He is merely
| going to look on and watch thou
sands Of his race settle in Palestine
( More than one thousand Jews are
on their way to New York. It Is
believed that Palestine will soon
have a population of 100000 Ag-
Sriculture will be the chief pursuit.
Aaron Aaronsohn, the greatest aE-
ricultural Investigator the world
! has ever known. had his laboratory
/ forty miles from Jerusalem. He
was the discoverer of wild wheat
| and produced the thornlcss cactus
| for feeding cattle-aIthough Bur-
bank got the credit for il. there is
proof. so agriculturists say, that
Aaronsohn was first. Eight crops
of alfalfa a year have been pro-
duced in Palestine. No other coun-
| try can produce more than six
| crops. The road from Haifa TO Je-
rusalem is lined with orange groves.
England has established two banks
J in Palestine. 1t il to be a haven
! for students. The cornerstone of
the big university has been laid.
Julius Tannen. back from a trans
continental swing in vaudeville,
! brings the sad news to Broadway
! that Will Rogers. the cowboy COM
| edian, is finished forever-aye, for
I ever-with the old fashioned speak
| ing stage. Mr.. Rogers is vastly
| taken with the delights of the mo-
vie world and is content TO linger
! in it for the rest Of his life. When
he feels the urge to be humorous
he writes set of Aim captions. He
has bought a big home in Califor-
MIA and his children are going to
school there and Broadway only
| sees Rogers on the silver screen.
He is an Arkansas product who
won fame in vaudeville throwing a
lariat. chewing gum and making
rural epigrams.
A No Luncheon club has been
7 formed by business men downtown.
| Instead OF sitting down to roast
! beef au jus or something else Just
as filling, hardy band OF workers
! face away from the. restaurants at
the noon hour and spend the time
taking off ndipOse tissue in a CLUB
gym on Vesey street. Making sac
rfices in the interest of a waist line
calls for courage-but il saves
money and makes the dinner much
more enjoyable
Courses in concentration are not
necessary for children brought up
in the most congested quarters of
New York. II appears. Anybody who
makes a habit of walking about the
city whereN fife is thfckest will see
children bUsily at work over their
lessons in the midst of thronging
tides of hum Inity. where the streets
are filled with the explosive noises
incident to traffic, the clatter of
cars, the bang of bursting motor
tires. the shrill cries of youngsters
at play and the great dull under
roar of all the city's activities.
The pavements are their black
boards. One almost stumbles upon
crouching little figures, chalk in
hand. totally oblivious of their sur
roundings and as intent upon their
lessons as IL :mrured in some quiet
study lined with books and with
helpful govorress close at hand.
Perhaps IL is a sentence, that is
being written across q stretch of
pavement. II you pause you will
see the rest |of that section of the
sidewalk mapped out for the sem
tence analysis. Number. gender,
tense and case are written IN large,