South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-11-06
BROADWAY CHORUS
GIRLS SET PACE
Selah! Volstead Shortened
Their Attire, and Dimpled
Knees-Are Now the Thing.

which AlNt me NdllOu8 stage en-
trance OF the city's so or 100 first
class theaters and rehearsal halls.
This Is the trail Of the August-Sep-
TENDER chorus girl as she trips gayly
out Of the subway or taxi and silken
shOd with dainty heel and ankle and
frou-frOu swish OF shiny lingerie,
proceeds on her merry way 10 learn
tthe new songs and dances which viii
presently lure the N0rdic dollar into
managerial box Office and bank.
4 lew interest, too. IS making
early morning subway and surface
commuters peep over their news
papers as they are carried madly
down 20 den, canyon and sky-brush
ing Office tower. Suddenly a lot Of
carefully gOwned, siippered pretti
morning traffic The call for re-
hearsal is at hand-the call OF the
wild-and the call is for 10 o'clock.
These perfumed visions are Broad
way chorus girls. my boy, on their
way from Harlem. Hoboken. Rich
mond Hill and Cathedral heights.
They look az If they had stepped out
of a bandbox, although the hour IL
$40 or Whereabouts. THE middle
Of the night" some OF them call It.
Bat no late hours for them last
night-at least not yet. They are
or the job and don't you forget IL.
Some Of them are carrying mus :.
under their lOng-gloved or nakeG,
cool. young arms, and they are as
fresh and tanned as though they had
: Just emerged from the loving,
splashy embrace Of Father Neptune
himself. They are the girls who
: have successfully passed the prelim-
mary voice trials and everything,
and some OF them are holding
parts studying them, too.
Ambitious2 No name for it,
Perhaps this day Will bring the
chance 20 be a principal, even IL it
be only the little flower girl' in the
first act. Who knows but before
noon a. this rehearsal the producer
may say: "Try that girl out in the
part Or Polly or Ann" Perhaps
some clear voice in this mornings
music rehearsal around the piano
may cause the musical director TO
turn around and say "You take the
end seat in the first row OF the So
pranOs."
Greatest Girl Gambling Game.
It's the greatest girl gambling
game in the world and the most
wildly exciting. because it is so hui
man. 80 artlessly and femininely
ambitious because the chances are
50 great for spotlight fame.
And II these flower gardens or
adorable femininity. bright eyed and
busy. scorn the lifting breezes or
siH0en knee exposing two footsteps
from vehicle TO street, just remem-
Der that Gladys or Gwendolyn Is on
her way to rehearsal. conscious of
a secure toilet and with no time to
worry about such things anyway.
The call was made for 10 o'clock
and II Is now 10:15-hwful leeway
the chorus girls immemorial aca-
demic quarter OF an hour.
Half consciously as she flashes by
with dazzling smile she cons the
three immemOrial excuses for being
late-held up in the subway. held
up at the street crossing, held up In
the elevator apartment
It's q poor fish who thinks a
chorus girl can't read his mind.
Selah!
Now. here is what happens when
she passes from the sunny street
into the dark door of stage. entrance
or rehearsal hall like a butterfly
folding its wings OF course she
powders her nose-Gabriel's trum-
pet can't stop that Then IL the re-
hearsaLs are being held IN the thea
tor where the show IS 20 open she
inquiries for her mail Passing fur
ther along, the next thing she runs
into is the fellow who has been pa
tenuy calling the roll for a quarter
Of an hour past and been doing IL
with a liquid worried look in his
eye. too.
Practice Clothes"
This Individual Is usually the as
sistant stage manaser Of the produc-
tion TO be. and his position right
now is an invidious one. Tn one
hand he holds the list OF all the
names Of the 90 or IS girls con-
cer1ed. together with their ad-
dresses and their telephone numbers
In the other he clasps a much I'm
Cered watch that does yoeman serv-
ice. What wouldn't the average
stage door Johnny give to ser a peep
at that secret list Of telephone num-
bers.
Passing the buck 10 the subway
or traffic COP. our understudy now
u crosses the stage 90 set into line.
into practice clothes or into her
chair as the case may be. In doing
= SO she reads the mind of the man
at the piano or the man at the
table down on the footliehts who
has charge Of the rehearsal or who
ever the particular Ned Wayburn
3 may be.
Speaking OF excuses. I suppose
a the chorus SRI IS the most resource
fIL OF all particularly dur
E ing rehearsal eras. Yesterday the
prettest chorus girl was more than
one hour late but upon entering the
theater she walked up 10 the plano
swinging her mesh bag. calm and
\ collected. IL appears that she had
= brought q bottle OF Scotch down
town with which 20 pay a debt, and
crossing L.ongacre square a federal
officer had stopped her.
'Luckless waif" he said, II viii
have TO annex that bottle OF hootch
/. AID along with 10, perchauce. your
pretty self. also"
The Very Idea!
Gladys made a baby blue stare.
why. the very ideal" she ex-
claimed don't Won ever read the
papers? 7 am simply taking this
over 90 the government laboratory
20 have it tested. Il might be wood
alcohol YOU know"
The officer had not read the morn
ing paper. 80 a paper was purchased
at a nearby news stand and the
wire from Washington trfur1 nhantly
pointed out 20 him. Meanwhile time
few. He scanned the item thoucht-