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THE CHORUS GIRL.
HAPPINESS AND HARDSHIPS
A great deal has been written about the stage from various 'as pects, but a point of view, which is rarely considered is that of the chorus girl Now that the autumn
S.P.C.A. FINANCIAL DANGER FROM LIME
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OVER $3,500 RAISED,
NA total sum of 83,50€,50 has now beon collected by the SP.C.A.
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IN WATER?
QUESTIONS FOR SANITARY
BOARD.
At the meeting of the Sanitary Board this afternoon, letters to and
turned to the hon. treasurer who the recommendations of the Direc
it coming on, and the now musical scription lists have now been re-from the Government relative to comedios, revues, and patomimes
are being put into rehearsal, it is wishes to acknowledge with thankstor of Medical and Sanitary Ser
a case of now or never for the chorus girls, or they may be strand- ed through the winter.
The greatest difficulty with which they have to contend is compot tion, for the supply is very much greater than the demand. When over a musical show is being put on, a series of chorus auditions are held, at each of which there may be anything up to four hundr- ed applicants, and rarely more than sixty places to be filled alto- gother. Cards of admission have to be produced at these auditions, otherwise, presumably, the manage. ment would have to deal with hundreda more girls. These cards are obtained through agencies which are in touch with the man- agement, or direct from the mari- agemont themselves. Sometimes, if a girl is pretty enough, or cun- ning enough, she may force her way into an audition without, a card, but it doponds on the, strict- ness of the management whether she will be heard or not.
The Audition Ordeal. With a sinking heart a girl turns up at the stage-door of the theatro where the audition, is being held, and looks round at the smart-cok- ing, self-confident crowd already ngsembled there. They are probab y all just as nervous as she is her- self, but it is the thing to look successful and not over-anxious, and this most of them maninge to da. It is n grent relief to lina a Inmiliar face and have someone to talk to during the lengthy waits which are bound to occur. When the appointed time arrives, or sometimes considerably after, the crowd, is shepherded on to the stage. The footlights are generally on, and a few of the toplights. All the old hands produce make up, and, standing about in the wings, prop up little mirrors among the 'sconery; and put a, enough to 'pre- vent the lighting from taking all colour and significance out of their facts. They know that first appear- ances are half the battle. Same girls bring quite elaborate evening
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vice as a rosult of his member-
Previously acknowledged...83,082.30 ship of the Sanitary Board will be Messrs. Douglas Steamship
Co.
Staff of the Theosophical
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Society of Hong Kong. Mesare. Leigh & Orange Mrs. Carmichael.......... Messrs. J. F. Grose & Co. Mr. J. F. Grose Mesars, William G. Jack &
CR.ti....... Messrs. Ellis & Edgar...... Messrs. Joseph Goold &
Co. Messrs. The Pharmacy IR.S. Messrs. Berg & Co. Mr. Ellis Hayim Mr. E. Grossman
Mr. M. J. Van Schreven... Mr, P. M. M. da Silva........ The Sports Club...... Staff, Mesars. Lane, Craw
ford, Ltd. Mesare. Hat Renovating
Co.
The Filipino Olub ..... Mesars. Geria Drevard &
Co.
23.00 submitted to mombers.
A lolter from the Government 16.00
relative, to the approval of the 10.00
Offensive Trade By-laws will also 26.00 10.00 be read.
0.00
MT. N. Chau, pursuant to 18.60 notice, will ask:-
10.00
2.00
5.00
6.00
10.00 5,00 5.00
Megara. The Clover Flower
Shop Mr. J. Quint
5,00
6.00
Messrs. Muller & Phipps
(Asia), Ltd.
1.00
2.00
6.00
10.00
13.50
2.00 1.00
10.00
1.00
Staff and pupils of Queen's
College
35.00
Mr. M... Turney
10.00
10.00
12.00
18.00
3.00
17.00
5,00
10.00
10.00 1.00
-1.00 3.00
2.00
Mr. A, Hyde Lay
Mr. D. V. Stevenson....... Army Pay Office Mesura. Canadian Pacific
S.S. Co., Ltd. a Messra, Yo Olde Printerie,
Ltd. Messrs. Raven & Basto, and
staff... Dr. B. de Souza Mr. F. M. Willer Consul-General for Canton. ideasta. Assurance Franco- Anonymous......
Asiatique........ Messrs. China Fancy Goods Messrs. China Japan Trad.
ng Cus Messrs. China Mercantile
Mr. Lai Yau Tsun Messrs. I. H. Kotewall &
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Mrs. SB. C. Ross Capt. Hugh Williams Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse.... Messrs. Far East Oxygen and Acetylene Co...... Mr. P. L. Woo..... Mr. K. C. Yec
"In view of the fear expressed by certain members of the, Chin- ese community that, the frequent drinking of chlorinated water might be injurious to health, will the Head of the Sanitary Dopart- ment inform the Board:-
1. Whether in the opinion of tho Madicai Officers of Health such is the case or nati
:
ii. Whether the quantity of chlorinated limo used On ench and every occasion is prescribed and supervised by expert officers** rit. Whether there is any other chemical substance of less -pronouncod odour and tasto which could be effectively. substituted for chlorinated. lime f
iv. If the answer to question (iii) is in the negativa, can anything be dono to remove or lessen the very disagroe able odour and taste"
ENGLISH FOR ALL- THE WORLD.
IS STANDARD' ENGLISH POSSIBLE?
Miss Elsie Fogerty, the well- known London expert in English 1.00 spacch, thinks that an international 5.00 | standard English is possible. Sho has gone to America in the cause, 40.00 beginning in Illinois and passing on
to Hollywood..
10.00
10.00 25.00
3.00 2.00
"The need for an interrational English language, to ho used 'in 10.00 particular by the two Anglo-Saxon peoples. has been made, imperativé by the introduction of the Talkies," she said before she left." It is as a sort of ambassador in this cause that I am visiting Hollywood. Mr. C. B. Cochran and Mr. Maurico Browne have given me introductions to the leading film authorities.
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corners. It may be a singing or
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dancing audition,” or “verhaps PARS FROM EVERYWHERE. both, in which ease the dancers change into short skirts or knick-
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Dr. Wu Chao Chu, Chinese Minis Eventually the management Apter to Washington, is considering pears, and the audition begins,
Weeding Out,
It is the most heart-breaking
a return to China in November in order to attend the central meeting stood that a request for his presenco of the Kuomintang." It was under-
American and English Talkers. "Talkie speech, as it stands to day will not do, and I am anxious to know what they want to give us. over there and what they want us to give them," abe continued. Please do not imagine that I have the slightest intention of going to America with the idea of teaching its people how to speak what is our English, neither am I con cerned with any endeavour to alter the American accent.. Тhеrе вто many Americans who speak beauti-
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"My object, which applies equal- first rough weeding-out, done by Chinkai Naval Station, near Yu-ly to ourselves, is to promote the appearance only, according to what san, Korea, on March-10 in which use of physiological spouch, LL, type of girl they want for this 107. primary school students perish- particular chorus. As many as ed, the case was settled by the and organs through which we make three-quartors of the girls are Military authorities paying A
sound, and the use of esthetic sometimes thus turned down right solatum of Tis. 500 per capita to
speech or the ways of using speech. away, although they may be excel the bereaved families. There wen,
which require that it shall be an lont dangers or singers, without bowever, some parents who wore not having a chance to show what they satisfied, and Mr. Ueda Ichiro andat, not merely a mechanical move- can do: This seems very hard on
iwo others living, at Hinode-dori, does not in any way affect what I ment. The perfect use of these them, but is really unavoidable as Chinkai, representing those incan call the true variant, ot national the management simply, have not tolate parents, have now gone to
and parochial, characteristic of the time to do it any other way.
Tokyo to visit Mr. Keiss, of the voice, but would bring about the War Office, accompanied by two use of true English as she should The Hopeless Onos...
lawyers, asking for a sincere con-
he spoke." Attention is then concentrated on solation on the part of the mili the remaining girls There may tary authorities. It is reported. be a further more careful woeding that they are determined 10, take notion against the military authori- out as regards size and typo, or they may begin bach, singing or
the Tokyo District Court in Lies ід dancing in turn. Each applicant the event of no sincerity being is warned on the audition card to evidence. Exactly what they de bring a piece of music with her, hire the military authorities to do and there is an accompanist there. is not quite clear, sincerenzive One by one the girls take the cen- ing used in such a tre of the stage, facing the blank way in Japan. It looks as though auditorium whose sole occupants a larger solatium was desired, hút are the small critical group of the it is not impossible that what they management the stalls. The require is a ceremonious expression hopeless cases are stopped after a of regret and sympathy. few lines have boon sung or a low steps danced by a cart""Thank you, good morning." The luckier
The Talkle. **9."..
"But at present the Talkies have rot presented us on the whole with, human beings on the screen whe talk-rather they are masks with imperfect utterance, and I am cer tain that much could be achieved by experiment to bring Talkie speech to artistic perfection. I am convinced that with time and the means at my command to carry out the necessary experiments I could and the remedy for the hissing. S, which the microphone now refuses to digesh Such experiments would, of course, occupy months of time and require the services of many trained specialists and artists in. addition to some two or three thou sand pounds but it would be well worth it," she concluded,
ones are allowed to get through a contrneta. More often than not whole verse, and the luckiest are the contracts are dealt with on a told "Thank you; will you wait 1ater day, and it is by no means and know that they are among the unknown for a girl to receive news finalists, sa.to speak.
na that on further, consideration the The agony may be prolonged for he been turned down and no con- some time while the final selection tract is forthcoming. Happy, in. is being made, and then the dis deed, is the chorus girl who leaves. It is announced from the Vatican eappointed-girigodliness while the amamilion with, assigned chatrael that the Blabong of Mains and
addresses, and in some cases to sign time at least she is no longer of (Continued at foot of next column.) the unemployed,
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