CHORUS GIRLS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 March 1939, Page 5

CHORUS GIRLS

HOW “GOLD DIGGERS” LIVE.

ONLY ONE MEAL A DAY.

The “average” Hollywood chorus girl is a New Yorker, twenty-two years old, who has twenty-two pairs of street shoes, eight evening gowns, four fur wraps? and the equivalent of £2O in the bank and her name is Rose Tyrell. “I guess I’m typical. Most of the other girls have the same problems and the same fun I have. I’m happy,” she said. After being born in New York and schooled in. a convent, she became a dancer and went to Hollywood in 1933 under contract as a member of an Albertina Rasch troupe. Since then, she has visited New York three times, but she thinks Hollywood will be her permanent home. In her five years in the cinema city, six weeks has been her longest period of unemployment. Loans from friends tided her over that lean period. She lives in an apartment house in n “single” which she shares with another girl, but lately the room-mate has been in New York, which complicates Miss Tyrell’s budget somewhat As for the four furs, they were collected over a period of several, years. They are a caracul cape, a caracul coat, a red fox cape, and double silver foxes. Two were gifts. Two she bought for herself. She buys a new dress every two months, without waiting for sales. She does not buy lingerie, using instead the silk trunks of her rehearsal costume. She has eighteen pairs of rehearsal pyjamas, and these, with her shoes, are

probably her most expensive investment. She washes her own clothes, but cannot sew. She cannot cook, either, and gets along with.one substantial meal a day, dinner, which she eats in one of the more expensive restaurants, so it costs 5s or more. She economises by doing her hair and finger nails herself. Twice a week, at least. Miss Tyrell goes to the movies, and prefers mystery or romantic films. She meets a lot of stars and they interest her, but that is all. Besides, her young man is a coming actor. She says she would give up her career for marriage. Curfew rings at midnight during the week, on Saturday “whenever she gets home.” Whenever that may be, she nevertheless attends church each Sunday—never misses. Other mornings she rises at 7.30.