Omaha daily bee., 1922-05-14
Diary Of a Junior League
Chorus Girl the Week
of the Big Show
Family Loses Cook, and Chorus Girls Crack Their
Throats But All Lose Weight and the Day
Nursery Is Safe for Year.
By GABBY DETAILS.

Monday: We got our parts
assigned today for the Junior league
show. I'm in the hottentot chorus.
The costumes sound terrible, and
we have to do kind of war dance
that isn't going to be bit pretty.
They've picked the queerest people
for the Dimpled Darling chorus.
Some Of them are all right, OF course,
but I've seen Mable's knees. That
girl hasn't got a thing below the
neck. Just because she has pretty
face they put her i'll. I'm not vain
about my own looks. goodness
knows, but l can dance. | taught
all the girls in school last year to
shimmy.
Tuesday: Pm learning to inhale.
1t still makes me rather dizzy, but
Pm getting the hang Of it. Every
body smokes at rehearsals, and all
the girls are crazy about MeIachrinos.
Mother thinks it's aw, i; we had
quite an argument abu. lit. but |
tell her you have to do something
TO kill time and keep yourself awake.
I'm going to practice out on the
sleeping porch before | go to bed.
Wednesday: l tried on my cos
tune today. 1t was oceans too
small. Pm going to have to reduce
somehow. One thing, all this dane
ing ought to help. l never got so tired
i'll my life. One of the boys has lost
IS pounds already. The cook left
today. I had started the Victrola
and was practicing my hottentot
dance, and she came in and saw me
and was shocked to death. She was
a colored Baptist and thinks any
kind Of dancing will take you to
perdition. She said she wouldn't
stay in the house if I was going to
DO that dance, so, of course, / told
her she could 70. Mother was rather
put out about it for some reason.
But Eliza never could make salad
that was fit to eat, so don't see
why she cares.
Thursday: Rehearsed all day and
had two fittings. I'm a total loss.
Nobody knows what work this thing
is. I'm going to be choir boy in
the mock wedding l just found out,
and gee but / look cute in Gotta
or cassock or whatever they call
those little white things. They set
off bobbcd hair so we'll. / almost
think I'll see if ! can get into the
choir at church. 1t would be loads
OF fun to come down the aisle in
one every Sunday.
Friday: Honestly, the funnies,
things do happen in connection with
the revue. We were getting up some
advertising literature and VIII Hays
wrote us letter and said how in
teresting our work mould be for ''us
grown folks to read" What does
he think the Junior league is. any.
way? A lot of school children
And then on top of that when they
called the all-night rehearsal the
other day one of the girls kicked
about the late hours and said the
League girls had to go to bed at a
decent hour, and some man, an old
crab who's IS ii he's day, laughed
sarcastically and said. Poor little
thingsl | went to school with mos;
OF them" Nobody seems to under
stand what the League is.
Saturday: Of if ever live through
, tonight. I'nhso scared that l can,
eat, and if anybody speaks to me ]
simply want to scream. I'm sure
I've strained q ligament-I can hard.
" step on my right foot and The
doctor has my ankle all strapped
I'D. Nv costume isn't finished vet
II will probably fall off me unles,
/ literally sew it on. Our last re.
hearsal was this morning and nc
que in our chorus knows the word: