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14 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW September i6th, 1899
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Specially engraved fi/r The Dramatic Review by the Yosemite Hngravmg Co., San Francisco
Our artist's dream of the most beautiful chorus girl; below one of our poets has penciled an effusion.
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A versatile maid is the dear chorus girl,
The star of the cast one may say; The manager does not believe it — the churl!
At least not on salary day.
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At all other times he 's aware that her art
Is broader than all charity; She fits as though moulded "to ''any old part"
She 's never confounded— not she!
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She exits a trooper with knapsack and gun,
With swagger and step militaire. When Presto! re-enter — the trooper's a nun
Who soulfully chanteth a prayer.
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With a turn of the heel she's a premiere daoseuse
So nimble and graceful of toe — Beloved by the chappies whatever she does
Adored of the whole bald-head row.
The oft-quoted phrase, "She is good in her line,"
To her has no meaning, for mark — However she 's cast she 's expected to shine
As a firefly glows in the dark.
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She's sailor with hornpipe— she 's gipsy or TurkShe 's "peroxide Mag" at a pinch;
Indeed you'll agree she's a maid of all work, And who says her job is a cinch?
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She s milkmaid so smiling, she 's Quaker demure
In the Amazon march she is "slick"; Is she anything else? Why of course, to be sure
She 'san all-round responsible brick!
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Now fill up a bumper and driuk to her health. Let glasses be clinked— let them ring,
She might be a star and be rolling in wealth But alas— oh alack— she can sing ! ! ! —D. C