Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-10
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New York, Aug 9.-Gotham Daguer
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Yvonne is little French girl. She
has gone back to France, but her stay
in New York VIII never be forgotten.
She came over as chorus girl in one
Of the big, imported night club shows
and she returned when immigration
quota laws ended her six-months' So
journ on Broadway.
Yvonne at Is, whent to Paris from
the province in which she was born,
n hundred miles away. Her mother
and her grandmother went with her
for the hopes of the family were high
for Yvonnes career as a stage mana
quin-a dignified calling.
family friend had obtained for
her a chance with the Casino de Paris
Later she moved over to the Follies
Bergeres and one summer she was n
Patou clothes horse. AT eighteen she
was brought to America for six in
credible months.
Her mother managed to Scrape to-
gether enough francs out of the box
buried in the family garden to come
along with Yvonne, for of course the
troupe wouldn't pay her way. There
were several chaperones, but these,
thought Yvonne's mother weren't suf-
ficient to supervise so many girls.
OF course Yvonne went to bed
promptly at every morning, after
her last appearance on the stage. Her
mother came for her and took her
home to the little side-street hotel.
Yvonne never had a date with boy
in New York-not one 1t would have
scandalzed her family even to ina
CINE such a thing.
Yvonne didn't drink, except of
course, little watered wine at meals;
she didn't smoke. All her spare time
was devoted to ballet practice-she
hoped that she might get a chance
in the Opera some day. The letters
she got from the boy she had known
since childhood at home were read
first, consciously, by her mother be-
fore they were passed on.
Then one day, at a tea given by the
producer of the show in which she
appeared-and at which her mother
was a guest too-she met the son OF
an American millionaire He was 81
and handsome and he spoke French
had learned it abroad at school. He
talked with her for five or six min
utes and asked her to go with him
the following Sunday afternoon to
roadhouse on Long Island, where he
declared, genuine French cooking pre-
vailed
He pointed out-because he had
lived in France-that the mothers of
girls did not accompany them on
dates in New York: and anyhow his
car was a roadster without rumble
seat.
Yvonne told him gravely- that this
was a most unusual request. She
would have to confer with her mother
and would let him know by pneumati-
que-oh she had forgotten, there
were no pneumatique tubes under the
streets of New York, as in Paris, but
she would drop him a letter first thing
in the morning
That night the young man remark
ed casually to his imposing and be-
jeweled mother that he had a date
with a little French chorus girl in
that big night club show and would
take her out to Long Island for din
ner Sunday.
His mother, who had read all about
the deplorable naughtiness of French
revues and who had just seen movie
of backstage life in Paris, was ter
ribly upset. There was quite scene.
The good lady had visions of her son
clipping with this lawful chorus GIRL"
after all the hopes and responsibilities
that reposed in him, and soon she was
in tears.
Why, everyone knew about these
chorus girls!
"Oh, son, why don't you take Lou,
Sunday? Lou is one of the incest de-
butantes of the season. She's so fond
of you"
But mother, you know yourself
Lou is coming to Sisters party Sat-
urday night. It'll be quite a hinge
and you know Lou will have such a