The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-25
In New York
Rx PAUL HARRISON

New York.-There's no more uncertain destiny than that of chorus girl. Any chorus girl. She may come to the theater some evening and find her name in lights, She may marry million aire. She may even know actual want. Many chorus girl doesn't know where her next husband IS coming from.
 Pick, at random, any dozen chorines and you'll find they have dozen different backgrounds. They come from pretty nearly everywhere, even from New York city itself. The. blonde on the left is a society lass. The tall brunette grew up on the other side of the tracks in Topeka, Kansas. The redhead.s a college graduate. The platinum vision next to her immi- grated from an Indiana farm and is married to a policeman. And Take, as a representative group, the chorus of the Paradise, most Broadwayish of night clubs. Four are from Pittsburg: Louise De Forrest. Ruth Gormley, Robbie Hall and Renee Villon. Atlanta sent Bunny Lee, Charleston con- tributed Gloria O'Neil. Marion Callahan came from Nashville, Rita Roy from Dallas, Gladyce Deering from Shreveport. Ann Lee Patterson is beauty contest winner from Covington. Judy Malcolm and Dorothy Lee bail from Buffalo. And so goes the | long list-Rochester, Salina. St Louis. Lincoln. Butte, Carson City. Los Angeles, Clay Center and Six Corners.
 In a night club across the street dances the only full-fiedged D. A. R. chorus girl. Miss Eloise Mar tin, of Des Moines. Ia.
 Sporty Husbands
 What happens to them after their brief years of hoofng? Plenty. There's not one of them, suppose, who couldn't marry if she chose. The majority of them do choose, and have a large assortment of eligible males to select from. Society people no longer seem to object so strongly to chorines joining their families. Of course, there always are plenty of Broadwaymen, in all degrees of | solvency. And virile figures in | sports make likely material for | romances.
 Look at Babe Ruth, whose wife danced in the "Follies" And Jack Dempsey, married first to Estelle Taylor and. then to Hannah Will Hams. Look, if you care to, at King Levinsky and his fan dancer. John Weissmuller took the plunge with Lupe velez. Three of the current Yankee ball players -Lyn Larry, Lefty Gomez and Bill Dickey-married ladies of the stage.
 Fame and Fortune
 Lots of chorus girls go on to featured roles. There was Ruby Keeler. Ruby Stevens. too, who became known as Barbara Stan wyck. Lucille Le Soeur, a Club Richman kicker. also has won dis tinction in the movies. Her name Is Joan Crawford now. Billie Dove was in the ensemble on Zieg- feld's Roof. Marion Davies danced in "Oh, Boy" and Irene Castle hoofed with the chorus of Stop, Look and Listen" Those are just scattered examples.
 A few ex-chorus girls open dancing schools. Some become models. The Fairbanks twins, of Ziegfeld's brightest days. have opened beauty parlor on Broad way. Henriette Kay, of the Zieg- field and Earl Carroll choruses, makes a living as a sculptress. The great Dolores, one of the first to be glorified, became a manne- quin for Lucille" who is Lady Duff Gordon: Then she married Tudor Wilkinson and now she and her husband live in Paris and are two of the most exclusive com mission agents for art and an- tiques that you could find.
 Another famous Ziegfeld lass was Dinishade, who real name was Lillian Fisher. She's now Mrs Frank Farley. is the Paris editor of Harper's Bazaar. and probably will be furious when she reads this. 4g I Not all of them fare so happily. Of course Still another Ziegfeld girl, Rose Gillard, has become a waitress in the Club Richman And Mary Marco, who besides be- ing a chorus girl was runner-up for the title of Miss America, is hat-check attendant at the Casi- no de Farce. Eula Jarvis, once a wiggle-dancer for Texas Guinan sells tickets in Broadway movie theater. Mary Ann Brennan, a toast of the town when she was known as Lillian Lorraine, is lok ing for job-receptionist, sales woman. cashier. anything.