单词 | chorus girl |
例句 | Because now they pranced onstage: the chorus girls. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Sourmelina, dreaming of chorus girls, had sleepwalked across the throw rug. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A column of shining black ants walked across a windowsill, their bottoms tilted upwards, like a line of mincing chorus girls in a Busby Berkeley musical. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “No,” he said, “I’m afraid we couldn’t. That sounds too much like chorus girls or ballet dancers, and these birds are pretty serious. I don’t think they’d like it.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Eluding Jordan's undergraduate who was now engaged in an obstetrical conversation with two chorus girls, and who implored me to join him, I went inside. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z He growled; drums pounded; chorus girls screamed and fled. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A chorus girl at the Forbidden City from 1959 to 1962, Ivy Tam said that the place felt like a family, that dancers looked after one another’s kids backstage while their moms performed up front. East Meets West, Over Cocktails 2014-04-11T21:58:20Z I was a dancer and a chorus girl.” Amy Adams and Donna Murphy in ‘Into the Woods’ 2012-07-26T12:00:00Z The film, choreographed by Busby Berkeley, ignored most of the Ropes novel, using just its final chapters to tell a classic tale of the chorus girl who gets the big break. Review: A New ‘42nd Street’ Opens in Paris 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Then again, that’s true of the feds, the unions, the chorus girls and almost all the characters who run in predictable circles around Ike. Television Review: ?Magic City? on Starz Is Set in Miami Beach, Circa 1959 2012-04-06T00:24:34Z With razor-sharp wit, Megan Fairchild, puffing away on a cigarette and then clearing the air with the silky wave of a hand, brought the glamour of a 1940s chorus girl to her debut. At New York City Ballet, Hits, Misses and Daring Dancers 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z Having wandered into the first theater she spotted, apparently, Ruby is recruited to take over from a just-married chorus girl. Review: ‘Dames at Sea’ Skips Onto Broadway 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z But Mailer’s reaction to that kind of praise will be like that of the chorus girl who received as a birthday present from her millionaire lover a signed photograph of himself. Review: ‘The Jeweler’s Eye,’ by William F. Buckley Jr. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z His mother, a nurse, was an am-dram chorus girl; his father, an engineer, played in a brass band. John Tiffany: from Black Watch to Peter Pan 2010-04-05T20:35:00Z When he adapted "Babes in Arms" for Goodspeed Musicals in 2002, he added the role of the world's oldest living chorus girl. Actress Marie Lillo, who had 60-year career, dies 2011-02-11T23:10:10Z He had genius, he had charm, but coercion and scapegoating colored his rehearsals, and he rarely met a chorus girl he didn’t try to bed. ‘Fosse/Verdon’ Has Magic to Do. And Undo. 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Every chorus girl who ever kicked her toes in the direction of heaven. Perspective | Hollywood brightened Lady Gaga’s star. Las Vegas will protect her from oblivion. 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Thomas was a one-time Ziegfeld Follies chorus girl whose ghost is said to haunt the New Amsterdam Theatre, current home of the Broadway musical “Aladdin.” On Halloween cemetery tours, the dead come to life 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Then Florida, in which elderly millionaires, before the Wall Street Crash, squander their money on leisure, yachts and chorus girls. Flickonomics: eight movies that teach us how money works 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Born in a drab port city in Yorkshire, she ran away at 13 to London, where she found work as a chorus girl. DVD: Dorothy Mackaill?s ?Safe in Hell? and Others on DVD 2012-01-08T01:38:11Z "She said she was feeling one coming on…" Bawden confirms it and hares off, vaulting over two chorus girls playing cards on the corridor floor. Wouldn't it be loverly? Behind the scenes at My Fair Lady in Sheffield 2013-01-13T00:05:36Z Each character, whether gangster or chorus girl, has a pleasingly distinctive language of movement. 'Bullets Over Broadway' makes up for its lack of new music with strong choreography and acting 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z When vaudeville faded out and its stars migrated to the livelier burlesque shows, Betty and Rozelle went on the road as chorus girls. Betty Rowland, One of Burlesque's Last Queens, Dies at 106 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z In a kooky twist, Pin-Up's photo story about the building, by David Fischer, stars one of the chorus girls from Berlin's famous Friedrichstadt-Palast. | Offbeat City Guides 2012-06-14T16:59:18Z Those who want to stay onstage struggle to land more shows or, if they want to move beyond the ensemble, fight to be seen as more than a chorus girl or a chorus boy. Going From Show to Show No More 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The original scratched bar was intact, the rafters were crowded with antique bottles, and a steamy portrait of a Gilded Age chorus girl hung on one wall. Regilding the Gilded Age in New York 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Any chorus girls posing in a line had communicable diseases and terrible secrets. A Bob Fosse Film-Festival Diary 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Dreaming of stardom, she began her stage career as a chorus girl in touring musicals. Dixie Evans, Who Brought ‘Monroe’ to Burlesque Houses, Dies at 86 2013-08-11T00:49:34Z It is about a busboy with an unrequited passion for a chorus girl who becomes consigned to a wheelchair after her jealous boyfriend pushes her down the stairs. Composer Alan Menken explains how 'Newsies' became a stage dynamo 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z In a kooky twist, Pin-Up’s photo story about the building, by David Fischer, stars one of the chorus girls from Berlin’s famous Friedrichstadt-Palast. | Offbeat City Guides 2012-06-14T15:00:26Z She won a British tap-dancing championship at 11, which led to life as a chorus girl and then her big break as the lead in the tap musical “42nd Street” in London’s West End. These 18 movie stars are also amazing dancers. That’s their real superpower. 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z He kept a separate, sparsely furnished room with “a single couch” where he would bring chorus girls. How #MeToo Is Smashing the Casting Couch 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z “I was a chorus girl with a big skirt and a big wig, singing way too loud. Angelo was doing the music for the show, and we became friends.” Julee Cruise, Vocalist of ‘Twin Peaks’ Fame, Dies at 65 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z "It was borrowed time anyhow – the whole upper tenth of a nation living with the insouciance of grand dukes and the casualness of chorus girls." What makes The Great Gatsby great? 2013-05-03T18:00:00Z Stallone became a circus trapeze artist in the 1930s, and hairdresser and a nightclub chorus girl. Jackie Stallone, Celebrity Big Brother contestant and mother of Sylvester, dies aged 98 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Fierce, high-kicking chorus girls, they are both eye candy and magnificently impenetrable, whether singing along to Leonard Cohen’s “Lover Lover Lover” or sweeping through repetitive, full-bodied phrases. Dance Review | Walter Dundervill: ?Dear Emissary, ... ? - A Trip Through Time and Fashion 2010-03-12T23:02:00Z Moore, a former chorus girl at Harlem's Cotton Club, was only the fifth black actor to be shortlisted for an Oscar. Imitation of Life star Moore dies 2014-01-02T12:31:43Z He played a high-kicking chorus girl under a priest’s tutelage at his all-boy school’s year-end musical with more enthusiasm than most of his classmates. Long Before RuPaul, Doris Fish Wore the Wig. Fiercely. 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Richards began her career as a chorus girl in Harlem’s Cotton Club. Review | Glamour, gossip, sex, scandal: Man Ray’s portraits captured Paris between the wars 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z Now his dog barks, the phone shrills and the laughter of chorus girls taunts him; yet he can’t make a sound. TIME?s Favorite Cultural Moments of 2011 2011-12-27T15:00:22Z Any actress not costumed in the latest fashions, a French columnist warned in 1881, “runs the risk of remaining disdained and ignored among the cheap chorus girls.” Antiques: New Auctioneers Take Over for Tepper; Long-Ago Spokesmodels 2012-01-19T22:49:43Z Adam Kantor plays Harry, a composer, with Emily Walton as the chorus girl he loves and Jay Armstrong Johnson as a loyal friend. 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z She also danced with the Martha Graham troupe, worked summers on the Borscht Belt, and even wore a fake jewel in her navel as a $25-a-week chorus girl in the Latin Quarter in Boston. Betty Garrett, actress in film, TV, Broadway, dies 2011-02-13T11:55:09Z Set during the Jazz Age, it conjured a world immortalized by Damon Runyon, in which gangsters and chorus girls strutted the same turf. Theater Review: Woody Allen Transforms His ‘Bullets Over Broadway’ 2014-04-11T02:00:16Z But there’s also a touch of the chorus girl here. Review: ‘Thunder,’ Through Body and Voice, at Brooklyn Studios for Dance 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z The show will chart her rise from West End chorus girl to one of Hollywood's most photographed stars and also document her later humanitarian work. Audrey Hepburn exhibition announced 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z Ending up in New York City, she was a chorus girl in theatrical productions and then worked as a studio backup vocalist and ad jingle singer. K.T. Oslin, country singer of ‘80’s Ladies,’ dies at 78 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z So Stark's charming collages include a series featuring a life-size chorus girl. 'UH-OH: Frances Stark, 1991-2015' at Hammer Museum is an enthralling midcareer survey 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Adam proves an adept pupil and immediately fits into the club's all-male team, whose backstage dressing room behaviour is indistinguishable from football players or chorus girls. Magic Mike – review 2012-07-14T23:05:59Z What they were escaping to, as Miller describes it, was “one glittering party” after another, accompanied, in Walker’s case, by repeated “sexual escapades with actresses and chorus girls.” ‘Supreme City,’ by Donald L. Miller 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z His shows like “Be More Chill” and “Broadway Bounty Hunter” turn minor characters — the teen loser, the superannuated chorus girl — into main ones, shoving outcasts into the spotlight. Review: In ‘Love in Hate Nation,’ the Revolution Will Not Be Scrutinized 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z He was required over and over again to dance with a bevy of beautiful chorus girls who hoisted him off the floor and carried him across the stage before starting to undress him. Arts & Leisure: Matthew Broderick in ?Nice Work if You Can Get It? 2012-04-05T15:10:22Z Stanwyck spent several years going from foster home to foster home, and by 16 was working as a Broadway chorus girl. DVDs: Six Barbara Stanwyck Films 2010-04-24T02:40:00Z “It’s Black Southern Kabuki,” said Wolfe, who drew inspiration from the chorus girls at the Apollo Theater who used to shadow their faces with watered-down shoe polish. First Look: Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z She hoped to become an actress, in the years before World War I, but ended up in secondary roles, often as a chorus girl. The Life of Jean Rhys, a Uniquely Brilliant and Thorny Writer 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z Doris began as a chorus girl and understudy to the show’s star. Doris Eaton Travis, Last of the Ziegfeld Girls, Dies at 106 2010-05-12T06:05:00Z The current female ensembles — tall, thin, almost uniformly white — were modeled in part on the Ziegfeld Follies’ American chorus girls, who became popular in the 1910s and 1920s. Paris Cabarets: Can We Ask for More Than the Cancan? 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Christine is a dancer and chorus girl who lost her father at a young age. The Christines take their final bow Stevens won a Golden Globe for her 1959 film debut as a chorus girl in Say One for Me, which also starred Bing Crosby and Debbie Reynolds. Stella Stevens: Nutty Professor and Poseidon Adventure star dies at 84 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z There was scandal involving his romantic dalliances with chorus girls and actresses, resulting in a divorce announced in 1906, according to a biographer and reports at the time. Emily Post’s etiquette tome overhauled for 21st century 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Place in the win column Frank Loesser’s priceless score and a big cast commandingly in tune with a vintage New York of bunco artists, chorus girls, soul savers and high rollers. Review | Bet on this ‘Guys and Dolls,’ ladies and gents. It’s aces. 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z “I was a chorus girl with a big skirt and a big wig, singing way too loud,” she recalled in a 1990 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle. Julee Cruise, the whispery voice of David Lynch films, dies at 65 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z It generated nothing but publicity for her, which may be just what the Ziegfeld Follies chorus girl wanted. Perspective | In the 1920s, America was transfixed by the showgirl and the congressman 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z A chorus girl plans to escape tenement life by marrying a wealthy gambler. Movies on TV this week: 'My Fair Lady'; 'Marry Poppins' 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z A U.S. diplomat escorts a chorus girl mistakenly invited to Paris on behalf of American theater. Movies on TV this week: 'Lust for Life'; 'Platoon' and more 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Two poor New Yorkers become chorus girls and rivals for the same rich man. Movies on TV this week: 'Gandhi'; 'Forrest Gump' and more 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Wartime chorus girls move in with a lingerie tycoon and his playboy butler. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z When he was 2, his mother abandoned the family and, Holbrook later learned, moved to New York City, where she worked as a chorus girl. Hal Holbrook has died, actor created amazingly accurate portrayal of Mark Twain in one-man stage show 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z A Detroit chorus girl weds her stage producer without telling her rumrunner boyfriend. Movies on TV this week: 'The Phantom of the Opera' on TCM 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z She was a chorus girl in New York theatrical productions and then worked as a studio backup vocalist and ad jingle singer. K.T. Oslin, hitmaking country singer, dies at 78 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z That was the director William Wyler’s verdict after watching a screen test for Roman Holiday by a young chorus girl called Audrey Hepburn in 1951. 'My mother was like a steel fist in a velvet glove': the real Audrey Hepburn 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z A newsman links his fiancee’s millionaire father to a chorus girl’s murder. Movies on TV this week: 'The Bridge on the River Kwai,' KCET 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z A gorgeous chorus girl determined to marry into money finds one wealthy beau after another while a handsome bodyguard remains devoted, hoping to win her heart. Movies on TV this week: 'The Shining'; 'Gandhi' and more 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z She worked as a trapeze artist for two years before taking a job as a chorus girl on Broadway. Jackie Stallone, mother to actor Sylvester, dies 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z A Brooklyn chorus girl wins a contest, leaves her boyfriend and joins a Broadway show. Movies on TV this week: 'Gandhi' on Showtime; 'Giant' on TCM 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z An escaped convict flees by bus and falls in love with a chorus girl on board. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, May 17, 2020 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z An insurance man and a chorus girl baby a heavily insured Broadway producer. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, May 10, 2020 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Sibling chorus girls go to Paris and live like their mother and aunt who were 1920s flappers. Movies on TV this week: April 19: Jaws; Seven Days in May 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z A New York dancer grooms a chorus girl to be his new partner, falling in love along the way. Movies on TV this week: April 1 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z A singer flirts with a chorus girl from Albuquerque after a San Francisco socialite buys him a nightclub. Movies on TV this week: 'Gandhi' on Showtime; 'Giant' on TCM 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Songs by George and Ira Gershwin highlight this tale of a dancer and the British heiress he mistakes for a chorus girl. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, March 29, 2020 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z An elevator operator, a vaudevillian and a violinist’s wife cope with sudden fame as chorus girls. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Mar. 22, 2020 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt. Movies on TV this week: Feb. 23 — 29: 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Thinking a German spy has killed her new husband, a chorus girl flees to Paris and marries a pilot. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020: 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' and more 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z New York chorus girls room at a theatrical boardinghouse while waiting for their big break. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z A stranded New York chorus girl keeps house for an oilman; then her boyfriend arrives. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, March 29, 2020 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Suspended Broadway chorus girls borrow money from a gangster friend to find millionaires in Havana. Movies on TV this week: 'The Deer Hunter,' 'White Christmas' and more 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Blackmail and bullets end a married New York businessman’s affair with a chorus girl. Movies on TV this week: 'Silence of the Lambs' 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z An amnesiac World War I British veteran marries a chorus girl, then forgets her. Movies on TV this week: 'GoodFellas' on AMC and more 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z A sassy chorus girl falls in love with a seat-of-the-pants pilot in South America. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z A hobo finds a handbag in a train station and becomes a gentleman for a day with a chorus girl. Movies on TV this week: Sept. 29: 'Almost Famous' and more 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z A songwriter’s big check puts chorus girls to work but incurs his brother’s wrath. Movies on TV this week: 'The Deer Hunter,' 'White Christmas' and more 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Groucho Marx co-wrote this tale of a nobleman who breaks with protocol by marrying a chorus girl he met on vacation. Movies on TV this week: 'Silence of the Lambs' 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z A chorus girl, producer and dancer put on a Broadway show. Movies on TV this week: 'GoodFellas' on AMC and more 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z At age 15, Stanwyck became a chorus girl and danced in speakeasies before she advanced to Broadway. Barbara Stanwyck became devoted to acting after painful past, says film expert: ‘Work was her life’ 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z A Brooklyn chorus girl follows a boxer and flirts with his manager. Here are the feature and TV films airing the week of Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z A chorus girl and a married woman fight over a white hunter in Africa. Here are the feature and TV films airing the week of Aug. 4-10, 2019 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Dames at Sea A Broadway chorus girl gets her big break aboard a ship in this celebration of classic musicals from the 1930s-40s. SoCal theater listings, June 9-16: ‘Indecent,’ the Hollywood Fringe Festival and more 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Thanks to a family connection — her uncle Robert Carlisle was a film editor and producer — she learned of a casting call for chorus girls at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. Mary Carlisle, a perpetual ingenue in dozens of 1930s films, dies at 104 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Despite having no background in dance, she got her start as a chorus girl at Forbidden City in San Francisco, a nightclub featuring all-Chinese shows. Mai Tai Sing, pioneering Chinese American entertainer, dead at 94 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z She left for England at age 16 for school, then worked as a chorus girl and muddled through a string of unhappy relationships across Europe. Review: New novel fleshes out Jean Rhys’ troubled life 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z A nightclub chorus girl marries into a rich family, and some of its members resent her. Here are the feature and TV films airing the week of Aug. 4-10, 2019 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Here, Diamantopoulos ran away with the night, as the number segued into a kick line of chorus girls dressed as lamps. Review | In Fox’s overblown ‘Christmas Story Live!,’ no shot-out eyes, and perhaps some clearer vision 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z Berle's sister Rosalind managed the models and chorus girls who answered the phones and, the feature noted, "many callers just wanted to talk to the show's handsome chorus girls." This Is How Telethons Became a Fundraising Tradition 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z She plays a singer who finds her man fooling around with one of the chorus girls and flies into a fury of fists and curses. A Bessie Smith ‘dream project’ makes its D.C. debut 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Nora performed as a “chorus girl/dancer,” while Ross, a one-time special policeman in Chicago, worked as a stagehand. Righting history: Every month is Black History Month at BlackPast.org 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Mr. Branagh’s visage remains unseen, his back to the audience as his taps his sad, lonely routine while the chorus girls smile and carouse about him. THEATER REVIEW: ‘The Entertainer’ on West End tour-de-force for Branagh in lackluster play 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z With dark strokes and spare backgrounds, Arno created raffish scenes of potbellied plutocrats and curvy chorus girls amid flowing martinis and a racy ambience. An Homage to New Yorker Cartoonist Peter Arno 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Trees grew between tables within the giant, arched windows, and scantily clad, multi-feathered chorus girls danced in the aisles and on the catwalks overhead. Bringing back the sounds of old Cuba 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z It opens with a touch of kitsch, a deep blue American football field in which a line of chorus girls dance to Mantovani-esque music. Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle: 9 hours of 'challenging' art on film 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z In a different scene, the addition of a short, stocky woman as a laughingstock among a bevy of willowy chorus girls seems meanspirited. Get-Rich Scheme Goes Comically Awry in ‘The Producers’ 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z The old-fashioned cocktail called the Florodora, made with gin, lime and grenadine, was named for chorus girls — a fragrant yet buzzy drink that suited early 20th century music halls and the bars outside them. Some fake cocktails, or mocktails, are worth a try 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z It reminded her of a line of chorus girls. Tennessee women’s athletes know what it means to be a ‘Lady’ Her father died while she was at drama school, but instead of going home she slipped away, becoming a chorus girl and changing her name to Ella Gray. 'Every hour a glass of wine' – the female writers who drank 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z The most dramatic moment for me came when a single, gigantic high-kicking chorus girl was shown with the two Goodyear Blimps attached to her wrists, prefiguring the next film’s sequence with the birds. Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle: 9 hours of 'challenging' art on film 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Starring Betty Balfour, Britain's most successful silent actress, it told the story of Tip Toes, a chorus girl who falls for an impoverished author. Masterpiece of silent film recovered 2014-04-02T23:45:11Z In lighter moments, Mr. Schacht, who is 86, sees the humor in this, for he remembers newspaper headlines about chorus girls marrying men in their 90s. Your Money: A Same-Sex Couple Together for 58 Years, but Husband Is Still Fighting for Benefits 2014-03-21T14:21:01Z The occasion is the opening of a new casino, and we've been assigned the important task of chaperoning 35 chorus girls from the Lido nightclub who will dance at the opening. IHT Rendezvous: Why We Eat Turkey: The Buchwald Explanation 2012-11-22T17:18:55Z The chorus girls and everybody, to my mind, were less excited than he. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z He would have been just as helpless, just as irrationally enslaved, if she had been a chorus girl. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z The chorus girl was played by Balfour, known as the "Queen of Happiness" for her ebullient comic performances. Masterpiece of silent film recovered 2014-04-02T23:45:11Z The promising son, sharing this atmosphere and even enriching it, yields while at Aldershot before the war to the superficial charm of a chorus girl, and marries her. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z He promised to marry me, more than two months ago, and then got infatuated with some blond chit of a chorus girl. On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents 2011-11-26T03:00:14.947Z The chorus girls kept right on singing for a couple of minutes, it seemed. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z I was going to run away and be a chorus girl till I could earn enough to study for grand opera, but my father has induced me to wait—just a little. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z Some of my best ones are up for auction, and some of my chorus girls are up for auction, and I am waiting for Gaga to get in there and grab hers. Bette Midler to auction her costume collection, suggests Lady Gaga purchase it 2011-10-19T16:55:07Z He was known to innumerable chorus girls as "Boy-dear," and made a point of entertaining them at luncheon and supper during their visits to the university town. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z Great hunks of Greece, Manhattan and A thousand chorus girls! By Trench and Trail in Song and Story 2011-09-24T02:00:15.120Z Then some of the musicians and chorus girls came rushing through and they wanted to know which way out. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z He knew well the hideous uncertainty which being out of a job means to the chorus girl, and its more hideous possibilities. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z Strict justice to the Australian songster compels me to say that a few of them do achieve to the position of chorus girls. The Awful Australian 2011-08-11T02:00:14.850Z Even in his dealings with his friends, the chorus girls, there was a certain touch of humour which made it impossible even for the most straightlaced to say hard things of him. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z From the corner of the box Dan looked hard 35 at the stage, at the fresh brilliant costumes and the lovely chorus girls. The Girl From His Town 2011-08-05T02:00:50.677Z Eight dashing chorus girls and eight stalwart men in showy costume strolled through the measures of the piece, bathed in a flood of dazzling light. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z Underneath the stage of a theater, drinking beer with a chorus girl! Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z I heard some chorus girls of the old school complain in a café one night that "what with these Conservatorium girls cutting the screws the profession is going to the dogs." The Awful Australian 2011-08-11T02:00:14.850Z The Lady of the Lake, the ethereal creature who gave King Arthur his magical sword Excalibur, becomes a nightclub chanteuse who dresses like Cher and is surrounded by curvy chorus girls in Vegas-style glitter. | Long Island: Puns and Parodies, and a Killer Rabbit 2011-07-23T02:20:46Z The crowds began to fill the lately empty wings—dancers, chorus girls with their rustling gowns. The Girl From His Town 2011-08-05T02:00:50.677Z Some of the chorus girls displayed great coolness in the face of grave peril. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z He hadn't done much of anything, but he had tried very hard to drive a touring car and seven chorus girls through a plate-glass window into a restaurant. Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z But through the chorus girl, as well as independently, Joan had contracted many other fugitive friendships. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z Not infrequently during times when rehearsals are on, chorus girls are kept until the wee small hours. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z The theater seemed horrible to him: the chattering of the chorus girls, their giggles, their laughter as he passed the little groups, all seemed weird and infernal, and everything became an object of irritation. The Girl From His Town 2011-08-05T02:00:50.677Z Herbert Cawthorn, the Irish comedian who took the part of Pat Shaw in the play "Bluebeard," assisted many of the chorus girls from the stage exits in the panic. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z The chorus girls, who regarded Harrigan Blood as a sort of demigod who could make a reputation with a stroke of his pen, acclaimed this sally with exaggerated delight. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z The landlady, a stout, breezy woman on the right side of forty-five, had once been a chorus girl at the Gaiety, and her circle of acquaintances had evidently been large. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z When the camera reproduces the chorus girl herself, suddenly strangely plain and painted, there is to the observing and reflective instead of sauciness the hollowness of sauciness. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z Even a man in a hurry has a right to notice a tributary of chorus girls, musicians and actors sweeping into his street. The Boy Grew Older 2011-05-10T02:01:01.027Z Quite a number of the chorus girls live in Chicago, and Mr. Price furnished cabs and sent them all to their homes. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z "I'm to be taken for a chorus girl, by old Sassoon too—complications, heaps of fun!" The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z In that case the marching chorus girls could pass a given point. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z They said some sort of "How d'ye do" business and made bows like Chinese mandarins, but their faces would have made a chorus girl get thoughtful. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z "It isn't necessary," he would object, "for everybody around here to know you're a chorus girl." The Boy Grew Older 2011-05-10T02:01:01.027Z He helped a number of chorus girls to escape through the lower basement. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z The chorus girls began to talk "Sorry it's so," said Massingale, turning; "I shall lose you!" The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z Even "a Ziegfeld chorus girl" suggests an unvarying type. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z Will you become just a man about town here, make friends partly in Bohemia and partly amongst some of us, endow a theatre and marry the first chorus girl who is too clever for you? The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z There's no chance of the chorus girls or house girls,—oh, I've been over all the possibilities,—and there's only Mrs Everett left. In the Onyx Lobby 2011-02-14T03:00:31.897Z By this time the chorus girls were shrieking with terror, as the fire brands were falling among them on the stage. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z As the chorus girls still persisted in their display of mannered stateliness, the men listened to Harrigan Blood, who had begun to coin ideas. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z As somebody or other has so aptly said, "It's great to be young and a Ziegfeld chorus girl." Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z "She's the chorus girl who got pulled out of the line to take the leading role." Gap's High-Risk Management Shakeup 2011-02-03T22:00:00Z "But over here he preferred the chorus girls?" In the Onyx Lobby 2011-02-14T03:00:31.897Z Herbert Cawthorn, the Irish comedian, who took the part of Pat Shaw in "Mr. Bluebeard," assisted many of the chorus girls from the stage exits in the panic. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z The caviar had just been served, and the chorus girls, watching for a precedent, were in a quandary between a fork which inclined to a knife, and a fork that was a tortured spoon. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z They wouldn't nobody of ever mistook the women for Follies chorus girls. Gullible's Travels, Etc. 2011-02-06T03:00:55.707Z Other lodgers that I remember were a young Greek and a chorus girl, mates for a single summer. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z "Not in a thousand years!" was the opinion of the assistant, one Gibbs, after he heard Corson's tale of the chorus girls. In the Onyx Lobby 2011-02-14T03:00:31.897Z I assisted many of the chorus girls to get out, and some of them were only partly attired. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z The chorus girls, unbending, began to talk American—all at once, chattering, gesturing. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z Bear in mind you're a chorus girl and conduct yourself in accord. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Alrik's young spouse was, wonder of wonders, a transplanted New York chorus girl. The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z You must know that in the back of everybody's head has been an unspoken thought of higher up people than chorus girls or elevator attendants. In the Onyx Lobby 2011-02-14T03:00:31.897Z All the people who were then on the stage maintained remarkable presence of mind and the chorus girls endeavored to divert the attention of their auditors off the fire by going on with their parts. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z From the farther end of the table she beheld the guest of the day radiating happiness under a storm of questions from the chorus girls: "Perfectly horrid of you to call yourself count!" The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z Congratulating me on my "getting away with it" and telling me how "peachy" I looked, he laughingly predicted a line of Johnnies at the stage door, flowers, and the usual perquisites of the chorus girl.... My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z Another habitué of the club was Mayor James J. Walker, a nearby resident who enjoyed the night life and chorus girls. F.Y.I.: The Lottery, Recycling and the Waterways 2010-12-26T01:09:52Z "Seems to me you're drawing a long bow," and Bates almost smiled at the mental picture of two gay chorus girls committing the gruesome deed. In the Onyx Lobby 2011-02-14T03:00:31.897Z On the stage the chorus girls, who had exhibited rare presence of mind, turned to flee. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z "I told you that pale, pearl-like chorus girl dressed there, and your latent desire to dress like a chorus girl——" "Oh, Lydia doesn't want to dress like a chorus girl!" Manslaughter The right kind of men don't marry chorus girls. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z "As though two chorus girls could be friends," interrupted the knowing "Marky." A Star for a Night A Story of Stage Life "Some chorus girls and the house girls, so far." In the Onyx Lobby 2011-02-14T03:00:31.897Z The first intimation I had of the danger was when I saw one of the chorus girls look upward and turn pale. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z After all, he might have married a chorus girl, or a rich fool, instead of old Jane. Cinderella Jane The most obscure chorus girl is 'an actress.' My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z There must be some pet charity, some deserving chorus girl who has a sick mother, some fresh-air fund you want to contribute to. A Star for a Night A Story of Stage Life Or must I tell you right out that if there's no chorus girl, no chambermaid, no elevator girl to fasten suspicion on, it is going to be fastened on some one else. In the Onyx Lobby 2011-02-14T03:00:31.897Z To the chorus girl it means from $18 to $25 a week, and if she be particularly clever perhaps a little more. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z She has a dressing room of her own, and any mere chorus girl that puts her nose in her door gets a lady-like call-down that you can hear to 42nd Street. Living Up to Billy I once asked a chorus girl of considerable notoriety how she had come to enter the profession. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z A chorus girl to refuse money and presents? A Star for a Night A Story of Stage Life But girls in our house are all older and wiser than a lot of giddy chorus girls. In the Onyx Lobby 2011-02-14T03:00:31.897Z During the "run" in the opening house the chorus girl has a chance to live at comparatively small expense. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z Ever since the Presidential election there had been a boom in the Street, a soaring market in which the whole community, down to and including messenger boys and chorus girls, had joined. The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident No wonder they call it "the chorus girl's breakfast." My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z When a chorus girl commences to receive hundred-dollar bills and diamonds, she can't stay in my house until I know who sends them, and why. A Star for a Night A Story of Stage Life "We have cut out all thought of the chorus girls, and the girls employed in this house," Zizi began. In the Onyx Lobby 2011-02-14T03:00:31.897Z To the chorus girl, it is a hideous nightmare. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z Rumours came to her of atheists and chorus girls and American millionaires, but she was neither alarmed nor dismayed. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary Surely as good as a stuck-up chorus girl, who couldn't dance and couldn't act and couldn't even sing sometimes. Carnival How often have you read of the wonderful luck of some obscure chorus girl, called upon in an emergency to play the leading rôle, and next day proclaimed a star! A Star for a Night A Story of Stage Life It isn't a unique case, my uncle's fancy for chorus girls,—but it by no means indicates the result of murder! In the Onyx Lobby 2011-02-14T03:00:31.897Z The chorus girls did not escape having to be thrown into involuntary contact with all classes and conditions of mankind, nor did they avoid the sharp social distinction drawn by the principals in all organizations. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z A chorus girl lived twelve years with a man, who then cast her off. Neighbors Life Stories of the Other Half Mamma and Richard would have a fit and the chorus girl rôle wouldn't suit me, either. Molly Brown's Sophomore Days Not a chorus girl south of Fifty-ninth Street but knew that "Marky" was always a friend in need and a friend indeed. A Star for a Night A Story of Stage Life And if women, who more likely than the chorus girls? In the Onyx Lobby 2011-02-14T03:00:31.897Z Mrs. Ogden Armour provided for the chorus girls, contributing $500 to settle their bills. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z Jilted her, you know—threw her over at the eleventh hour and married a chorus girl who had nothing to bless herself with but a pretty face and a long line of lodging-house ancestry. Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories It was very little Molly knew about chorus girl life, but that little she now turned to good account. Molly Brown's Sophomore Days Here were dramatic critics and noted actors and actresses and chorus girls, the gods and toys of avid, inexperienced, unsatisfied wealth. The "Genius" The detectives were aware that he said a pleasant good-night to the chorus girls he had entertained at supper, and had left the Magnifique, alone, about midnight, but then all trace was lost. In the Onyx Lobby 2011-02-14T03:00:31.897Z Fashionable theater goers, actors, actresses and stage hands, chorus girls, belted policemen and grim firemen, all met on terms of temporary equality, forming a heterogeneous assemblage waiting the call to take the stand. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z MEN used to marry good cooks and flirt with chorus girls; now they marry chorus girls and hire good cooks. Reflections of a Bachelor Girl Think your mother and I are aching to have one of these bleached hair chorus girls in the family? Side-stepping with Shorty She had an only son, Jack—a giddy, thoughtless boy, but very kindhearted, as many a hard-working chorus girl had reason to remember. The So-called Human Race There are all grades from those comparable to chorus girls at Jack’s to high grade actresses, and these were of the upper kind. Letters from China and Japan The Professor said they were going to spend it on chorus girls. Status Quo IT always surprises a woman when the son who has been tied to her apron strings suddenly gets tangled up in some chorus girl's shoe strings. Reflections of a Bachelor Girl There was one girl who spent the whole of her working days in pasting photographs of grinning chorus girls on to box-lids. Changing Winds A Novel He took to it like a chorus girl does to a telephone and what puzzled me was why none of them fifty dollar doctors hadn't thought of it before. Kid Scanlan He must of painted his teeth with enamel twice a day and he's there with a pair of eyelashes that would make a chorus girl take carbolic. Alex the Great I was in favor of spending counterfeit money on chorus girls?” Status Quo American business men do not always toil until 113 they are middle-aged for the reward of being made a fool by a chorus girl or an adventuress. The Gorgeous Girl Look, now," said the latter, releasing herself; "look at those chorus girls. Melomaniacs Miss Emerson came from the side room, attired in a street garb which would have brought envy to many a chorus girl. Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure They say that half the chorus girls in town considered themselves engaged to Tommy. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 And, in addition, that I have never spent a penny on a chorus girl in my life and have no intention of beginning, counterfeit or otherwise.” Status Quo Poor things, they were chorus girls, just as she had been, and they had so far to go. What's-His-Name We will dine at the club, then go to the Castle Square, where there is a burlesque on and no end of pretty chorus girls. Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast A friend gave it to me—it's the story of a chorus girl who married a rich club man, by Robin Chalmers, and oh, Mary! Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure Admission to the royal ballet is to a Cambodian maiden what a position in the Ziegfeld Follies is to a Broadway chorus girl. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China Woe unto the actor or actress, principal or chorus girl, who tries to sneak a smoke in a dressing room, if found out! The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession You are going to accept a post as chorus girl, or super, or something of that sort.” Anna the Adventuress On the little isle they were satisfied to marry soubrettes and chorus girls. The Place of Honeymoons Tempted in different ways, going to a high class wine room, so-called, then on the stage as a chorus girl. Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade The chorus girls, who were to act as supers, were already dressed in their peasant costumes and straggled all about the stage. The Comedienne The theatrical law requires that a chorus girl or boy be paid not less than $30.00 per week in New York City and $35.00 outside of New York, besides their transportation. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession I am not going to be a chorus girl, or even a super. Anna the Adventuress If ordinary chorus girls and vaudeville stars, possessing only passable beauty and no intelligence whatever, could bring earls into their nets, there was no reason why Nora could not be a princess or a duchess. The Place of Honeymoons They are all very well for little chorus girls.” A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Because of the rain a few of the other chorus girls were also late. The Comedienne Some chorus girls receive as much as $75.00 or $100.00 weekly, depending upon what they can do, their appearance, personality, etc. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession As for the Reverend Pubby, he wanted to creep away to the next town and then start for England disguised as a chorus girl, or anything; but I wouldn't let him. At Good Old Siwash Me and my two thin blankets As thin as my last thin dime, As thin, I guess, as a chorus girl's dress, Well, I had a dandy time. The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 Lawyers and pickpockets, speculators and laborers, poets and butchers, chorus girls and housewives at Coney Island find one common level in laughter. Still Jim "Look in the center of the flowers, perhaps you will find something among them," another one of the chorus girls whispered to her. The Comedienne Wrap up that chorus girl of a Psyche in leaves if you like. Gossamer 1915 That all the millionaires of Pittsburgh are very loud fellows, and raise merry hell with the chorus girls every time they go to New York. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind Arethusa nodded towards the frolicking chorus girls who were just immediately back of the foot-lights, all with arms out-stretched to their responsive audience, singing vociferously of unintelligible words. The Heart of Arethusa Well, they weren't of course, though it's surprising how many clubs, caddies, and chorus girls have depended on me at various times for appreciable portions of their incomes. The Worlds of If Janina knew that the chorus girls even after the most profitable performance received only fifty copecks on account and usually only two gold pieces or forty groszy. The Comedienne That night I went to a music-hall—according to the next morning's papers—and broke up the show by throwing a pocketful of solitaires to the chorus girls. Colonel Crockett's Co-operative Christmas He was as excited and anxious as a new chorus girl at a fall opening; but when I gave him the word he held himself in. Shorty McCabe Men who allow their wives to dress like chorus girls. A Book of Burlesques This afternoon, Swipes, Shorts and Spuddy took some of the chorus girls to the house, when the other fellows were away. Tess of the Storm Country Moreover, Janina had made a fiasco as an actress and continued to be nothing but a chorus girl, and his mother had threatened to disinherit him because of her. The Comedienne There were girls who looked like "show girls" or chorus girls at least, companioned by fashionably dressed and silly-faced boys. The Lion's Mouse She remembered what a philosophical chorus girl once told her: "Rather a good press agent than great talent." The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life If you could see the way she togs herself out—like some chorus girl. Torchy and Vee The room they had entered was furnished in a style which suggested that its occupier had sufficient means or credit to gratify his tastes, which obviously soared no higher than racehorses and chorus girls. The Hand in the Dark "How do you like our theater? . . ." asked the brunette chorus girl, whom she had met in the dressing-room. The Comedienne As they descended the stairs, they happened to pass the little chorus girl and the grim old lady, and Celia could not help nodding and smiling at them. The Woman's Way Men who stepped out of their class and went on parties with chorus girls frequently did so under assumed names, he reflected. Murder at Bridge As I feel now, I could chaperon a chorus girl myself. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) He had a disdain for the stage, he did not care for chorus girls, he disliked horse-racing, and he did not drink. The Hand in the Dark Some of the chorus girls had dressed and were going out into the garden. The Comedienne The chorus girl smiled back, and even the grim old lady's frown relaxed as she bowed in stately fashion. The Woman's Way Now they had to do with Daisy Ellington, the New York chorus girl whose mobile, piquant face was helping to make the Lunar reels popular. Steve Yeager I can shoo a Johnny, even if he's in the profession,' she says, lookin' at him, 'quicker than a bum stage manager can fire a little chorus girl.' Blister Jones The flowers drooped in their bowl; the chorus girls smirked in their silver settings; the framed racehorses and their stolid trainers looked woodenly down from the pink walls. The Hand in the Dark A tall, stout chorus girl, rustling her skirts, passed out of the room. The Comedienne Bob would always try to drink twice as much as any other man, and he treated himself with the same liberality in the matter of ex-barmaids and chorus girls. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary They had not remained in the chorus girl's room long, nor was anything said outside to arouse her suspicions. The Strange Case of Cavendish The strident quality of her voice is reminiscent of a Broadway chorus girl's, yet is delivered in a crisp, businesslike manner. 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s The little cluster of chorus girls looked at him almost with awe. The Black Box It seemed as though she wore a mask, only slightly resembling her own face and with that strange expression that all the chorus girls wore. The Comedienne Some jolly good people here, too—not all chorus girls and walking gents. The Ghost A Modern Fantasy There was a young man whose hobby was dress and chorus girls. Mike Fletcher A Novel I can't express in words the remarkable appearance made by some of our seagoing chorus girls when they attempt to assume the light and airy graces of the real article. Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit The chorus girls felt that it was time for a rarebit, and more nearly expressed that emotion than they did fear. The Art of Public Speaking What was she at the Lwow theater? . . . a chorus girl only. The Comedienne He was half afraid of the chorus girls, because they seemed such different beings from the nurse girls down home. The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories Frank, whose bent was hospitality, was therefore able to entertain his friends as it pleased him, and his rooms were daily and nightly filled with revelling lords, comic vocalists, and chorus girls. Mike Fletcher A Novel "Who is that chorus girl on the end acting frantic?" cried out one of the directors in the middle of a number. Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit By making a few movements at one side of the stage a chorus girl may draw the interest of the spectators from a big scene between the "leads." The Art of Public Speaking The chorus girls assembled slowly and dressed even more slowly. The Comedienne Here's to choruses in general and one chorus girl in particular. The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary Others were being fetched out by the chattering shadows, as if they were favourite chorus girls, to display their graces on the counters. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl By the side of the "Mona Lisa," however, was a cheap brass rack stuffed with photographs: actresses in tights, French quadrille dancers, high kickers, and chorus girls. Vandover and the Brute Notice the row of chorus girls who are supposed to be expressing fear. The Art of Public Speaking In the dressing-room chorus girls passively submitted to Janina, for they feared her, knowing that she had intimate and continual relations with the management. The Comedienne Judged by its effects, I consider it quite as reprehensible as a taste for cards or a fancy for a chorus girl. The Wheel of Life The memory of a chorus girl with whom he had once entangled himself still gave her a shiver at the heart when she recalled it. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage One of the chorus girls has two children. A Daughter of To-Day Visit a theatrical hotel in a large city, and listen to the buzz-saw voices of the chorus girls from some burlesque "attraction." The Art of Public Speaking Later they told me that he had fallen in love with a chorus girl and killed himself for her! The Comedienne The old lady who looks like a chorus girl in her dotage? The Wheel of Life Only," she concluded carelessly, "I suppose he'd select some dizzy chorus girl who would bring him to ruin. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage Once, he recollected, she had helped a girl friend to divorce her husband, a drunkard who ran after chorus girls. His Family "No. I don't either; the man looks like a drummer and the woman like a—" "A chorus girl!" said Patty, after one more peep at the stranger. Patty and Azalea Behind Janina some gentleman in a high hat was pressing the hands of one of the chorus girls. The Comedienne I dare say he was, I know he went to supper with a chorus girl once. The Thirteenth Chair "I thought you might have married a chorus girl or something of that sort," said Mr. Britling. Mr. Britling Sees It Through I went round during rehearsal and while waiting entered into conversation with a little chorus girl with a good face, who was sewing. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy She was married twice in America, being divorced by the first wife, after a union lasting ten years, on the ground of cruelty and misconduct with chorus girls. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion And then poor little Cosgrave, who as suddenly began to believe in himself and in life generally because he had fallen in love with a chorus girl! The Dark House People drifted by on the homeward stretch in little pattering groups—actors, chorus girls, waiters, and melancholy bartenders. Broken to the Plow Everybody except chorus girls had thought fit to appear at this ball in aid of the admirably charitable Chorus Girls' Aid Association. Mr. Prohack Just part of the town's decoration like the chorus girls, and the midnight theater crowds. Personality Plus Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock The second wife, a chorus girl who had been previously married and had a child, was devoted to her "husband." Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion "I shall hate you if you marry a chorus girl," said Daphne. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 146, January 14, 1914 "I don't know what to give Lizzie for a Christmas present," one chorus girl is reported to have said to her mate while discussing the gift to be made to a third. Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations And just as I had watched the chorus girls and mummers, three years ago, at the Globe Theatre, now, excited by a nervous curiosity, I watched this world of Parisian adventurers and lights-o'-love. Confessions of a Young Man Without a doubt in the world she had seen him, from a distance, talking and laughing with "the chorus girl." The Torrent Entre Naranjos Mrs. Kendal takes her children to visit a duchess, and has naughty chorus girls to tea, and tells them of the joy of respectability. Confessions of a Young Man I said, 'If this is the champion geisha, take me back to the land of the chorus girl.' The Slim Princess "Though there are different kinds of chorus girls," she reflected. The Visioning Mrs Kendal takes her children to visit a duchess, and has naughty chorus girls to tea, and tells them of the joy of respectability. Confessions of a Young Man He'll get tired of that chorus girl soon enough, pretty as she is. The Torrent Entre Naranjos And just as I had watched the chorus girls and mummers, three years ago, at the Globe Theatre, now, excited by a nervous curiosity, I watched this world of Parisian adventurers and lights o' love. Confessions of a Young Man Most of Carlotta's male friends gave most of theirs to polo, jazz, and chorus girls. Wild Wings A Romance of Youth She was talking to him about chorus girls; announcing her discovery that they were just girls in the chorus. The Visioning He is the son of that bad old Lord Aylesbury, who married some dreadful chorus girl a year or two ago, and all his family are terribly fast. Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract Doña Bernarda felt more at ease now that the evil influence of the "chorus girl" promised to be over; but none the less she did not lose her frown. The Torrent Entre Naranjos Without exactly being on the stage, she yet appeared to live on the fringe of it, and combined the slangy freedoms of a chorus girl with a certain quick wisdom and hard sense. Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them FLORADORA, an American chorus girl, who was some popular with the men. Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be Now I find that chorus girls are girls who enter the chorus. The Visioning They were mostly from the colleges, with a scattering of the male refuse of Broadway, and women of two types, the higher of which was the chorus girl. This Side of Paradise When the bare-legged classic dancer made her appearance in opera houses, and on concert platforms with symphony orchestras, it was the cue for every chorus girl with an ambition to undress in public. America, through the spectacles of an Oriental diplomat Eva said it was the kind of thing a chorus girl would use, rather than an elderly businessman. One Basket With my hand over the mouthpiece, so that nobody heard but Edward, I ordered a supper fit for a king—or a chorus girl! In the Bishop's Carriage All those dames whose ancestors had sailed unknown waters were in the front row of the chorus, and all the chorus girls were dancing a stately minuet at Old Point Comfort. The Visioning Mabel looked like a showy chorus girl, in a striped blue and white linen suit, a big beflowered hat, and a fluffy blouse of white chiffon. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise Was it indeed true, as Miss Everett has complained, although not in these exact words, that the Theater was only supported now by chorus girls' legs, dancing about in uter ABANDON? Bab: a Sub-Deb They were mainly chorus girls and ladies of doubtful complexion in search of cheap and ultra footgear, and—to use a health term—hardened by exposure. Buttered Side Down: Stories Do you know, Mag Monahan, that this Lady Harold Gray was just a chorus girl—and a sweet chorus it must have been if she sang there!—when she nabbed Lord Harold? In the Bishop's Carriage She had been seeing something of chorus girls as well as shop girls. The Visioning You see, I'd never seen a chorus girl, or the Woolworth building, or a cabaret, or a broiled lobster, or a subway. Fanny Herself You remember little Maybelle Fuller, don't you—the chorus girl's daughter whom our doctor doesn't like? Dear Enemy I'm as wide awake as a chorus girl and twice as hungry. Buttered Side Down: Stories I'm one of the nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand chorus girls you could introduce your sister to. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Sedately and gracefully they danced the steps of their selection in the balmy tea hours, accomplishing with a certain dignity the movements so horribly burlesqued by clerk and chorus girl the country over. The Beautiful and Damned The sin of sins to him, in a chorus girl, was individuality. Calvary Alley But after while, say Sven, he meet A chorus girl who look quite sveet, And marry her, and den find out Vat making her so plump and stout— "Excelsior!" The Norsk Nightingale Being the Lyrics of a "Lumberyack" There were the shouts and curses of the scene-shifters on the stage, the laughing voices of the chorus girls going by the door, and all the multitudinous noises of the theatre before the curtain rises. The Christian A Story There are plenty who seem to be wild, impulsive creatures, driven on by sanguinary fury, while others disclose the vanity of the chorus girl, or a self- conceit which is wholly ridiculous. Youth and Egolatry Carolyn Thorpe got as much enjoyment out of the gauche carriage and rough voices of the "chorus girls" as she had expected, but was not observed to warm toward "Annabella's" closest friend. Bertram Cope's Year Birdie had achieved her cherished ambition of going on the stage, and was now a chorus girl in the "Rag Time Follies." Calvary Alley He writes about strap-hangers, chorus girls, moving pictures, convicts, hospitals, bridge-builders and construction gangs—a symphony of noise, where everybody plays some instrument. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century A little beyond Bedford Row, in a rookery of apartment houses in narrow streets, there lives a colony of ballet girls and chorus girls who are employed at the lighter theatres of the Strand. The Christian A Story With the modesty of a chorus girl with a good figure on a "first night," he toasted the valet with much ceremony. L.P.M. : the end of the Great War If you call the manoeuvres of a newly fledged chorus girl acting, yes, she is. The Fighting Chance In his dreams he saw a fat man with a chorus girl hanging to his arm kicking his head about a bridge above a swiftly flowing stream. Windy McPherson's Son The crowding of the second-class car forced me to share a bench with a chorus girl of the company that had been castilianizing venerable Broadway favorites in Guanajuato's chief theater. Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond The future Duchess of Mowbray has to explain her position, whether she is a gentlewoman or a chorus girl. The Governors Maybe the price of lobsters is high, but did you ever see a chorus girl buy one for herself? The Sorrows of a Show Girl The first few weeks we merely appeared among the rabble—something like chorus girls, you see—but then we were given small parts and afterward more important ones. Aunt Jane's Nieces out West In my insane belief that a heavenly beauty, a celestial chorus girl, was kept for me, I pictured myself as an object of tender universal consideration. Cytherea Within its pale but sanitary walls one finds a noisy medley of chorus girls, college boys, debutantes, rakes, filles de joie—a not unrepresentative mixture of the gayest of Broadway, and even of Fifth Avenue. Tales of the Jazz Age Jove! with these fleshings I feel as self-conscious as an untried chorus girl. Man on the Box Estelle, that's my maid, says she has no desire to elevate the drama, and she had rather be a maid for a chorus girl any time—there's more money in it. The Sorrows of a Show Girl Now what you three are afraid of is that I'll misspend my money—taking to drinking, horse-racing, and running around with chorus girls. The Little Lady of the Big House He said it was a little chorus girl he had taken out to supper the night before. Vicky Van "They say he ran after chorus girls," said Mrs. Burton. The Hollow of Her Hand A year after the duchess makes overtures, the chorus girl threatens to throw up her engagement for him, and the chambermaid pesters him with unnecessary questions concerning baths and towels. Spring Days He lets every other benefit have it and he certainly wouldn't object to a few poor chorus girls pulling off a shindy, seeing as how they did so much for his success. The Sorrows of a Show Girl She'd be thinking all the time how she was depriving some poor, hard-working chorus girl of her legitimate pastime, and that would spoil everything. Roast Beef, Medium I ran across May Rosabel, that chorus girl I was telling you about. Jane Cable Was it a shop girl from Boston, or a chorus girl from New York? Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information There, too, was concerned another of these wretched chorus girls. The Voice on the Wire I did not enter the contest, for I am not a chorus girl; I am a show girl, if you please. The Sorrows of a Show Girl To make matters worse, Mrs. Hermon belonged so thouroughly to the old school that she could not even distinguish between a clever celebrated actress and a chorus girl. Winding Paths Then all the chorus girls run up and say, "Oh, here comes the old Sheik now." Writing for Vaudeville "I can't go around looking like a chorus girl," remarked Miss Kendall finally, with a glance at a little mirror she carried in her bag. The Ear in the Wall I tells her, 'He was dead in that taxi, with a chorus girl, and a roll of bills gone. The Voice on the Wire Us chorus girls were talking of marching to Albany in a body with drums beating and flags flying and demanding that the anti-betting bill be ditched. The Sorrows of a Show Girl It—it belonged to Veronica Haversham—then a poor chorus girl. The War Terror It's something better than marrying a little fool of a pretty chorus girl. Half a Rogue Their conversation was spattered with theatrical terms, and when, as occasionally happened, a real actress or even a chorus girl from the Tivoli joined their group, Emeline could hardly contain her eagerness and her admiration. The Story of Julia Page She looks sorter green, and repeats after me: 'Dead, with a chorus girl, and a roll of bills gone,'—just like a parrot. The Voice on the Wire She discusses the advisability of chorus girls charging time for their company like a taxicab. The Sorrows of a Show Girl He had never seen her before and, thinking she was one of the chorus girls, threw his arm about her. The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women Sempstresses, modistes, chorus girls, girls in candy stores, and telephone girls melted from the intense gaze of his heavy, soft, and languishing dark-blue eyes. Yama: the pit Bevies of weary and spirit-broken chorus girls in costume were sprawling on the chairs in the lower boxes, some sleeping, some too tired to sleep, and some eating ravenously from paper bags. Who Cares? a story of adolescence Meanwhile, let me call up your agency; then you give them instructions over this table telephone to let Howard Van Cleft interview the little chorus girl, with his friend. The Voice on the Wire She may be a good chorus girl, but she certainly is a bum racer. The Sorrows of a Show Girl What do you think she is—a chorus girl?” Cap'n Warren's Wards I have seen the offended barmaid, I have met the chorus girl—not by appointment, please don't misunderstand me, merely as a spectator—up the river on Sunday. Idle Ideas in 1905 The third was a chorus girl: on the whole, the best of the bunch. They and I He can afford it, but as he says, it's war times and money is scarce as brunette chorus girls. The Voice on the Wire Sabrina touches on the advantages of having a hotel for chorus girls and makes several comments on the dramatic possibilities of "The Mangled Doughnut," with which she is rehearsing. The Sorrows of a Show Girl I am on the stage," she said,—"only a chorus girl at the Universal, worse luck. Havoc Do you remember the cigar case presented to me by the Turkish Ambassador for discovering the missing favorite of the Grand Vizier in the fifth chorus girl at the Hilarity Theatre? Condensed Novels: New Burlesques As very young men, they too often fall victims to bad-tempered chorus girls or to middle-aged matrons of the class from which Pope judged all womankind. Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green Dukes doted on them; chorus girls wept if they were not on the bill of fare. A Damsel in Distress The benefit for the chorus, girls has gone up in the air, for none of them would acknowledge that they were chorus girls. The Sorrows of a Show Girl Their jewels go to my chorus girls or to arm my people. Havoc You've been touched with and by actors, and you read the newspaper criticisms and the jokes in the weeklies about the Rialto and the chorus girls and the long-haired tragedians. Strictly business: more stories of the four million “Baby” Stuart, aged nineteen, described as a chorus girl, charged with obtaining food and lodging to the value of 5s. by false pretences, and with intent to defraud Emma Brasier. The People of the Abyss A man who had been seated behind a desk had seized a roll of currency as large as the ankle of a Paradise Roof Gardens chorus girl and jumped out of the window. Whirligigs I may be only a poor chorus girl, but by gosh! The Sorrows of a Show Girl He became a first-nighter, knew all the chorus girls it was possible for him to become acquainted with, learned to drink but never learned to enjoy it. The Foundations of Personality They gaze with equal interest and absorption at a chorus girl or at a man painting a liver pill sign. The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million Betsy queried in horror, though she could not herself have distinguished Nilsson's voice from any chorus girl's. Anna Karenina But sir," cried the young man, with tears running down his cheeks, "if I had led a wild life, if I had passed my time in dissipation with chorus girls, then I could understand it. Damaged Goods; the great play "Les avaries" by Brieux, novelized with the approval of the author Some chorus girls were still crowding along it. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola Just then Prulliere passed by and shook hands with her, while two little chorus girls stood gazing at her with looks of deep emotion. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola He had only just come up, and he was already howling complaints about two chorus girls who had nearly fallen flat on the stage because they were playing the fool together. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola There was never anyone in this corner save well-dressed, patient gentlemen, who prowled about the wreckage peculiar to a stage door, where drunken sceneshifters and ragged chorus girls congregate. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola For the chorus girls' dressing room was there, and you saw a crowd of twenty women and a wild display of soaps and flasks of lavender water. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola |
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