River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1923-03-01
Courtesy of st. Paul Dispatch

portunity trots about knocking at the
door was all wrong. You've got to get
out and sprint right after that tickle
dame, get good strange hold on her
ard hang on like grim death. In
! New York, in London, and in Paris,
it's the same little game, I've found
Of course a place in "The Follies'
makes good show window. A girl
who has been engaged by Mr.. Zieg-
field is tagged with the most desir-
able kind of label. Motion picture
producers are always willing to give
her a test and she requires no other
kind Of introduction, and she stands
the first chance of getting a good po-
sition in a Broadway production OF
musical comedy.
For instance, / got my real chance
in pictures when Marshall Neilan saw
me in the Follies and engaged me
to pose in one scene of THE Lotus
Eaters" and later for a good part
in "Bits of Life" | might have hung
around agencies for months before
getting such, an opportunity.
Also, had | belonged to the 'care
free set" in the Follies, it would have
been impossible for me to "do" pic
lures in the daytime and appear on
the stage at night. As it was | was
in perfect condition and the double
work was really no hardship.
There's a lot of rubbish written
about the Follies girl. If she wants
to work hard and not go out on par
ties, she's let alone and is we'll liked.
Should she fall sick or need money,
the high rollers" are always willing
| to help her with their last cent. For
all these girls have hearts as big as
the world.
It's jealousy that causes all the
| trouble.
One girl comes in with a beautiful
diamond ring; the Others are jealous
and aren't happy until they get a
bigger and better one.
Few of the girls own cars; they
don't need them for their friends
own cars and they can always get
the use of one during the day, if by
any chance they want to go out in
the day time. Furs are the favorite
extravaganza. Last year squirrel
coats were all the rage; this season
they are playing sables because one
girl came in with a gorgeous Rus
| sian sable coat-it followed that the
others must rival her.
People have often wondered how
it is that Follies girls can have all
the fun they do and yet keep their
| good looks. AS matter of fact they
don't dissipate more than many girls
in society and they sleep lots more.
Their day really begins after the
show-at midnight-and unless they
have some shopping to do they sleep
all day.
"Show" girls get wonderfully good
salaries-that is for show girls-and
each one gets an amount which equals
her popularity. Publicity doesn't
hurt them-in fact it helps them, so
they don't mind all the wild things
that are written aropnd their suppos-
ed crazy lives.
/ passed up lots of good times
while | was with "The Follies" but
the lonesome game was worth while
and the girls played with last year
are astonished to read in the papers
that am playing the lead in Edwin
Carewe production for First National
Pictures with James Rennie playing
opposite me. Pm one Follies girl
who looked ahead
Don't let the dreadful stories you
hear about the wildness of the Follies
behind the scenes brighten you away,
therefore; if you are pretty and SEN
sible you'll find an engagement with
! Ziegfeld an open sesame to screen
success.