East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-04-02
CHORUS GIRLS SHAPELY
!. ANKLES CHARM LONDON

LONDON, April s.-tIloyd Allen,
United Press staff Coresp6ndent)--
slender ankles. after all, are the best
diplomacy. and the American chorus
girls who have been imported here.
are cementing Anglo-American under
standing in a way undreamt OF by am
bassadors and such.
In the League Of Notions. c, b,
/ Cochran's latest theatrical production
there are ten of them; and English
men. who as a rule are not lavish in
their use of superlatives, describe
them as the 'willowiest. lissomest.
and gracefullest girls who ever glid-
ed across Londons boards" Not only
English men, but English women, too.
are loud in their expressions of ad-
miratlon for the American type of
womanhood. which differs quite lot
from the English product. Cochran
has been particularly happy i'm his Sc
lection, and his American girls. con-
forming as they do to the ''Kirschner"
type-tall and slender--make strik-
ing contrast to the "petite" English
girls who are part and parcel of the
same show.
While American chorus girls. with
out exception, are tremendously pop
ular with audiences-they cause the
management one or two extra gray
hairs on account of their unpunctual-
ity during rehearsals. From injuries
made of yafious theatrical managers
who have fasr young Americans under
their wing, it would seem that usually
they come to England with a glorious
anticipation of being thoroughly
spoilt. Hence. they begin by turning
up late for rehearsals and then pro-
ceed TO overstay their lunch hour. AT
the first managerial reprimand they
raise supercilious eyebrows; at the
second they are prettily penitent; but
at the third they begin to realize that
the manager means business, and re-
form accordingly.
However. the conquest of London
has not been left to American chorus
girls only. Those stars" which Am
erica has spared from her own great
firmament are shining brightly over
here.
The Dolly Sisters and the Trix Sis
ters are making hit. while the two
biggest successes of the past season
were Paddy the Next Best Thing in
which Edith Day scored such a pro-
longed triumph.
There is some flavor about American
talent which never fails to please the
English palate. The Prince Of Wales |
is certainly not immune from the Am
erican lure. At a recent dance of Lady !
Lavery the Trix Sisters were sorted out
by the Prince of Wales for special at
tentlon. He danced with one of them
and insisted on hearing excerpts from
their 'act''-and when on applauding
and pleading for more until they had
finished the third number.
Another complete and individual
American success was scored by Mary
Nash at the oxford Theatre. in 1.-THE
Man Who Came Back"
In London's smartest bathrooms. the
American demonstrator is to the fore.
At the Savoy Hotel. Leonora Hughes,
with her partner, Maurice, held the
huge ballroom spellbound each night
and many Londoners went just to
watch them dance withous any inten-
tion of joining in the whirling throng
themselves.
Elsie Janis makes a musical COM
plant, entitled Its All Wrong" at
the Queens Theater-and while this
finds little favor with Americans in
the audience. Londoners clap and en-
core and pronounce it "Ffnel"
Managers are at loss to know
whether it's the American ankles or
the accent" that so completely wins
London's favor, but the favor is won
beyond a doubt. and those programs
announcing an English and American
Company are practically certain to
play to a full house.