The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-06-17
BIRD Teeth IN
KANSAS FIELD
Fossil Shows II Had Tail but
No Wings

for that which doesn't exist. hut did
you know that birds once had
tecth7
one OF the two specimens In the !
world OF birds teeth has just been
found In the chalk beds of Western
Kansas 10y Prof. IT, I. Martin.
curator at the museum. The Kansas
fossil Is OF the crctaceous period. I
about 20 million years ago. Ten /
teeth are included with the fossil.
THIS IL the second oldest known /
type of bird life. according TO Pro.
fessor Martin IL IL the most com. |
plete specimen that has been pre-
served. The bird was OF the Hes
perornis family. II WINS five feet |
long. had short vertebrae tail and /
possessed no wings. II was a
bird and resembied the mod. |
ern penguin.
The earliest specimen Of bird
that has been discovered had teeth"
says Professor Martin. This earliest |
type lived In the JuraAsic period. !
some 30 million years ago. and /
specimens have been found In the /,
Limestone beds OF Ger |
many This type OF bird was about |
the size OF crow and had sharp. |
pointed teeth and vertebrate tail |
longer than the body, like the
dinosaur"
The specimen preserved at the Uni |
vcrsity OF Kansas rs more valuable
than any other. because II gives
clear idea OF the cmi.plumaceous
feathery covering which the bird /
No other known speci' |
men gives this evidence.
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blame. Decent managers give girls
who drink their notices as soon rs
they find II out"
Take our chorus here. for In
stance.- broke In Edna Emmerson.
pretty and younglooking enough TO
b. still In her teens. why. we're |
the incest bunehl There's one-half |
pint OF liquor to be used In case OF |
illness OF anyone In this company. |
There hasn't been even a call for II |
i'm fun. Florrie Kingsley was III and |
faint the other night. and when some |
OF the company half pint was offered
to her she said. I'd rather die than |
touch it. Does that sound much
like the chorus girls that that awful |
Ziegfeld says bring TASKS into the \
dressing rooms and drink whenever
they have a moment TO themselves"
He's n darn liar came q chorus
from halfdozen others being
hooked up for the first act.
RECOGNIZE HOOCH
n THEY SAW 1T.
Some OF US hardly know what old
'hooch' looks like even" popular. I
ever smiling Katherine Kay took up
The story. Mine out Of 10 girls In
this company have their mothers
with them. The girls who haven't
i've with the girls who have. Why.
we're spending so much money rent
ing s~wing machines 20 make our
own dresses on. and pianos to help
continue our music study. that VIC
y wouldn't have the price for a drink"
Called In fun by the other girls
Tho Ecformer." Betty Taylor
n chair and made this
speech. I've been in the show bust
ness five ycars. and stand here TO
say that there's not as much drunk.
snness now as their used TO be. I'm
not saying that there wouldn't be II
\ certsin type OF girls could get II
easily. But do say that the pro-
fcssion Is improving every year. It's
4 mutual Improvement. The girls
are nicer and they want nice man.
ayers TO work for. The sort OF man /.
agcr that would Islander his girls in
Tho way Zicgfcld has In dying OUT
There's a picturesque phrase uni.
serral m the chorus. called "dishing
iirt" This is the frank. straightfor.
ward term for the gossiping that
goes on between members OF the
profession. And. OH. the dirt" those
girls "dished" about this New York
who has so incurred their
wrath. Dishes and dishes and
fishes.
isn't II awful when people like
Liegfeld knock tho chorus" lament
ID little Florence Doran. what can
se expect outsiders TO do when one
II our own says that?'
The O'Bricn Cirf' chorus 10
,iri voted To do all In their power
o freeze out r'iorcnz Ziegfeld.
9 "Wild girls live in exclusive society :
iircles and in humble homes In the
'lums. Same of them. II Is true. may
,arn their living in chorus. but the
,horus has no monopoly"
Kay Carleton voiced this phil A..
,sophy. II happened to. know that
many a dcbutante has greater
,apacity for liquor and better oppor.
unity to satisfy II than even the
,horus OF the Midnight Frolic.'"
Living right nj home In Jamaica
Plain is little Grace Cufbcrt Her
ather Is a physician and she is a
,olcgo graduate. She II specializing
n vocal and instrumental music and
and while doing 40 she Is
II all pay by being in the I
,horus Of THE O'Bricn Girl" She I
opened blue eyes wide AT the charges
" ZeiEfcld and thus defended the
profession:
why, every chorus girl know is
~ dear and sweet as any girl I've
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