South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-18

and 60 far as Z know the only list
+ of IT'S kind ever complications
pr.sed 107 girls. II was found that:
Seven had married within one
year from their debut in the beauty
chorus. p more married within two
I years. IA more married within three
+ years, 80 more married within four
year and % more married within
seven years. Totai OF 1O1 who had
married within seven years.
The years coverel by these figures
ranged from 1899 10 1919 and this
I undoubtedly accounts for the alb
normally large percentage OF mar
rIagcs. That 90 per cent Of chorus
/ beauties marry within 10 years OF
! their stage debuts would be a fairer
average than the % per cent indi-
I Gated in the figures above. for the
stage beauty Of today is more de-
voted 90 her art and less easily part
cd from IL then the girls Of "A decade
f or two ago.
\ Phenomenal Business Success.
have often been asked whether
chorus beauties have shown a dispo-
sition 20 join the mad rush for bust
/ ness success which has lately seemed
/ 20 sweep the women OF the country.
+ Everywhere we read Of women who
I have won fame in this or that i'm
I portant commercial venture - wo-
men drawing fabulous salaries for
I their services.
! don't believe that three per cent
. 80
/ reers when they leave the chorus and
I I have often wondered al this With
. the publicity which they receive, 1t
might be supposed that more would
settle down Cupon retirement from
the stage) to the managing OF spe-
cialty stores or art shops or the Ike
and thus attract a large popular pa
tronage. But the cases are few.
Probably the most conspicuous
/ case of business success OF one who
I came from the ranks OF the beauty
chorus is that of Frances Rocke-
! Teller King. of New York. This en-
I terprising girl determined to rise IN
/ the theatrical world and forthwith
+ conceived and executed a plan for a
1 career which might well be the envy
1 of many socalled able business men.
She had long noticed that there
was "A heavy demend i'm the great
was heavy demand in the great
cities of the country for private en-
I tertainmeuts Wealthy persons Civ
f ing parties might want a minstrel
troup or a ballet of chorus beauties
or a team OF comedians 10 furnish
entertainments for their guests. The
field had never been properly organ
.zed. An agency was needed 10 con-
meet the artists and the patrons and
/ Miss King determined TO do the work
better than Il had ever been done be-
fore. Her success has been remark
able. She is now the director of pri-
+ vate entertaining for the entire great
Keith vaudeville circuit and is said
10 know her business more intimate
~ than any other person, man or wo-
man. in the United States. Her
agency work brings her an income
which makes her one OF the half
dozen best paid business women in
the world
Few Fortune III untcrs in Chorus.
Contrary TO public opinion-which
has been formed by consideration Of
a few sensational cases receiving
widespread publicity - the chorus
beauty does not have for her chief
aim in life, marriage 10 a million
aire. Il Is true that there have been
many instances of millionaire chorus
girl marriages and that, generally
speaking. they have not turned out
-0 be models of domestic felicity. But
remember that there are $1,000 or
10000 chorus girls IN the country
and that the vast majority OF these
modern girls have gone into the pro