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LEARN ffteBANJO/> under Harry Reser,« t/ie Worlds Greatest Ban/oist\ * ,' Tlie Famous Leader of the widely broadcasted Clicquot Club Eskimos offers you an amazing:ly simple, new Banjo course by mail which anyone, even without musical bent, can master at home in a few spare hours. Positively the onljr method of home learning thru which a person of ordinary intelligence may become a Banjoist. Each lesson easy to understand. The course is in 5 units of 4 lessons each. SEND NO MONEY -PAY AS YOU LEARN No restrictions! No conditions! Take as few or as many units as you wish. Send your name for explanatory booklet, ''evidence,** testimonials, etc. A postal will do. Harry Reser's International Banjo Studio No.5 148 Weat 40«h Street, New York, N. Y. ^ Follies Girls' Follies (Continued from page ig) is the enormous salaries paid at present. "When I first went on the stage, an entertainer's job paid comparatively little money. If you did it, you did it because you loved it. Because you were the sort of person who had to do it. You were born like that. "It was all a great lark. There was a comradeship and good feeling, marred very little^by the desire to outdo the other chap — to beat him to the 'breaks.' "Youngsters in the theater are not like that now. Big salaries came in with the big revues. Entertaining became a commercial proposition. Big money was to be made at it. It changed the entire tone of relations backstage. "And I'll tell you this," added Fannie in her deep, vibrant voice. "Nothing in my whole career — my whole life — seems real to me except my babies, \^'hen the lights go down in the theater — the thing is over and done with. Forgotten. I should hate to come to the end of things with nothing left but a scrap book! Children and BrainChildren " A LL women want a home and children. ±\_ Show women, the same as any other kind. There is just one other thing I really want. I would give anything in the world if I could write." The women of the Follies, strangely enough, seem to be unanimous in those two wishes. A home and children. Aud they want to write. Each one with whom I talked brought up those subjects quite spontaneously, without any prompting. Lina Basquette, one time premiere danseuse of the big revue, has had a home and a child and now, widowed at twenty, she bids fair to achieve stardom in pictures. After that — she will try to write. There is a distinct social line drawn, it seems, between the girls who dance and the show girls who merely display their beauty. "You see, the dancers are ambitious," says Lina. "They have to work hard and most of them want to progress to something better. "They take dancing lessons in the day time and they have to go to bed early and take care of themselves — or they can 't perform well. They are mostly young. The show girls sometimes stay in the chorus for years and years without progressing at all. " The girls who merely have beauty — and no especial talent— are more likely to go in for the gold-digging thing than the others. "And if a girl has beauty, the Follies offers a great opportunity for her to exploit it — to cash in on it as she can. She hopes, perhaps, to make a good marriage. They all want that. She will make a brilliant one if she can. Sometimes they have to compromise. "Ziegfeld and C. B. De Mille are very much alike. Both great showmen. Both surrounded with sycophants, politics and intrigue. It is funny." Jane Winton, who was considered one of the most beautiful of the show girls, is married to Charles Kenyon,the writer, and also seems destined for a successful picture career. Tainted Luxury WHAT becomes of these girls?" she said, musingly. "So many of them disappear. I remember one whom I knew quite well in the show. I called her up when I was in New York. She did not seem to want to see me. "The next time I was there I called her again. This time she was most cordial and invited me to her home. She had a gorgeous apartment and was laden with jewels. And she admitted that when I had called her up before, she was 'broke' and living in a shabby room somewhere. "One I knew went insane. One committed suicide. One died not long ago. They live very hard, you see. "If they don't marry or do not have some other career to follow after they are through, they are unfortunate. It is hard to settle down to a commonplace existence after you have known that glamour and excitement for several years. I couldn't! Pictures are not as thrilling as the theater, perhaps. But they have a lure of their own — and they take all your effort." Jane has written several short stories. Then there is Sonia Karlov. Sonia was Jean Williams when she danced in the Follies and at Texas Guinan's. But she became a Russian with a thick accent when she started to crash pictures. And Hollywood, which has only honor for a good, showmanlike bluff,_ gave the little girl a hand when the hoax was discovered — after it had won her a contract. Ambition Petrifies "'\7'0U couldn't stay in the Follies and X keep your ambition," says Sonia. " There are three layers of girls. The first are the new ones — the youngsters — dancers, for the most part. They take it very seriously and work hard at their lessons and what-not. After a year or two, when they begin to get acquainted and to be known, they begin to be invited around a lot and the excitement of the night-life gets hold of them. They get hard — and begin to try to get things without working too strenuously for them. "As time goes on, their interest in their work wanes and their interest in parties and the people who hang about the theater grows. It is hard to get up in the morning and practice dancing if you have been out until four o'clock the night before. "Then there are the 'war. horses' — girls who have been in the chorus for six or seven or eight years. Show girls. Who have not managed to progress or to marry. Or who have married and then come back to try again. When they are through — when they get old and begin to fade — that's all there is — for them. " If you want to get on, you must get out of there before the thing gets hold of you and your ambition leaves you." Sonia, fragile and lovely, pale-haired, with milk-white skin, aspires to be a poet. And she has already sold some of her poetry to important publications. Billie Dove feels that she was never really of the Follies long enough to speak about it with any authority. "I wanted to get into pictures," says Billie. "That 's all I ever wanted. And when a job was offered in the Follies, it seemed a possible way to get started — -to attract attention. So I took it. " I never liked the stage or had any ambitions to progress there. All the time I was in the revue I was running around trying to get a test for pictures. I thought that if I could say I was a Follies girl, it would help. And the moment I had the tiniest opportunity in the world to do the thing I wanted to do — I left the show." the t The Trials of TryingOut ND there is little Peggy Watts. Her most vivid memory of the Follies is try-out. {Continued on page 8g) 72