Actorviews (1923)

84 Actorviews and paving since then, since the show made good. Now nobody gets less than sixty-five.” “The one who says ‘It’s all wrong!’ is worth seventy at least.” “Don’t worry about him ; he’s all right,” said Elsie proudly. “He was chauffing a car for Owen Moore when he came to me. Said his brother had danced on a table with me in France. I told him to send his brother around. And that night the stage manager wanted to know how many Ryans I’d ordered. I told him one. He said two’d shown up for jobs. ‘I can sing a little tenor, and, anyway, I’d like to stick with the Gang,’ said this Mr. Ryan, the chauffeur, your Tt’s-all-wrong’ man ; and he stuck. Sometimes,” Elsie added, “they dropped from heaven and sometimes I picked them up. “For instance — I wanted a blonde, a female woman blonde with looks and style and — Well, you know the regular chorus or show girl type wouldn’t do for the Gang ; might stir civil war ; imagine turning loose halfa-dozen seasoned chorus girls among those thirty-six he men! Chorus girls, of course, never look at anything less than the regular leading man in the regular theatrical company — and usually he’s grabbed quick by the leading lady. But three dozen Heroes! It would have been much too much. The flizzies would have raised a riot. “But, as I was or wrasn’t telling you — I was talking to Eva Le Gallienne in a hotel when along passed a stunning blonde, just what my heart had ordered. ‘Who’s that?’ I asked Eve, -who had bowTed to her. “ ‘That,’ said Eve, ‘is Miss Overhault — one of the Long Island Overhaults.’ “ ‘Ask her if she wants to go on the stage.’ “ ‘What!’