FROM STAGE TO CANNERY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2124, 6 May 1920, Page 1

FROM STAGE TO CANNERY.

Back in the good old times when Broadway, New York, was not the Great Day Way, chorus girls, good, had and indifferent, could be had for from £3 in burlesque to £5 in the more pretentious productions, this meaning, of course, per week. Those wore the days when the demand wasn’t as great and the h e 1 was a thing unheard of and unthought of. Now, however, conditions are different. Never before have there been produced so many musical shows as have seen the light of day this season. And, each of these shows must have chorus girls. Which means'that the “ante” has are getting from £4 10s to £6. But there are not enough girls. The former ladies of the chorus are forsaking the footlights for the canning factories, the ribbon counters and other places where one can make money, and not to be called upon to spend as much as a chorus girl is supposed to spend. A short time ago an up-State canning factory raided Broadway and soon the fruits of this raid were canning peas, tomatoes and other delicacies, and were getting anywhere from £5 to £ll per week. Many of them have forsaken the idea of longer performing before an interested audience, and, instead are jazzing fruit into tin cans.