Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-20
BY MAYME ODER PEAK.

ut Just seems impossible for Hollywood
to dodge the spotlight. The cinema
capitals latest claim to fame Is It's
sudden development into unique
peach" cannsry. Human peaches,
plucked fresh from dancing school, with pro-
yocative profles and the perkiest OF perso-
nalit;es The Hollywood chorus girl Is some
thing new under the sun arcs OF 1929. so
rapidly has she danced to the heights OF popu-
larity that the studios have placed her under
long term contract as an indication OF ner
important niche in talking pictures.
The dance sequences call for more Wen
trained dancers than are being employed IN
New York. Every third picture manufactured
is a revue or musical comedy. Many believe
them the real field for the talkies IN the
future The present demand, however. for the
preserved model of musical shows Is sufhcient
10 run the producers crazy.
Casting bureaus can't furnish overnight
dancers trained in tap, ballet adagio and aerial
acrobats Hence the studios engaged expert
enced "pickers" to go through this world
orchard Of beauty and pluck its bushels OF
pulchritudinous youngsters to be signed In STOCK
choruses .
THESE picked beauties compose Hoilywoods
= first colony of chorus girls, who will be
glorifed far beyond the colorful dreams Of
ziegfeld. To be ziegfeld star was always the
ambition of every girl. To be Hollywood
chorus g1rl means lar mofe IN pictures qua
has chance, If she Is an outstanding type, OF
making q hit overnight. Her field is unlimited.
The new style in choruses is an entirely dm-
ferent type from that of New York. Cali
fornia's chorus girl isn't so theatrical, so artt-
fetal, so sophisticated and worldly-wise. She
Is younger, much younger and she has certain
sweetness, cuteness and freshness that cannot
be painted on or on. Her bronzed shoulders
bear testimony to outdoor sports. She swirns
and rides horseback and can cook and sew.
She lives with her family and doesn't have to
stand the gan Of theatrical boarding house
nor the loneliness Of big city. When she
dances In q yard of chiffon or voluminous tille
the cold eye Of the camera, later, however,
translated into a million eyes. There are no
college boys in town for the week end, no mil
honaires SON to wind around her engagement
finger.
The screen chorus girl would miss all these
II she knew anything about them, but as
rule she doesn't The life of the Hollywood
chorus girl working in pictures is vastly Differ
ent from that Of her Broadway sister on the
Great White Way. The hectic hours are
absent as is much Of the hysteria--interpret
as thrills. She misses the thrill Of the overture
and the last mad rush to get her back powdered
and hooked up. There is no wardrobe mistress
TO rush her and fuss at her as she completes
her dressing when she should be waiting in the
wings.
The Hollywood chorus girl has no morning
rehearsal, afternoon matinee, evening or Sum
day shows. Her rehearsals are the hours of
Office workers, and while often called on for
night shooting" it is not the regular thing.
With the punctualty of stenographers, the
California chorines file through the big iron
grill studio gates at $50 in the morning, wear
ing gay coolie coats their abbreviated
practice suits and bare legs. All the props"