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Chorus-Girls
Metro-GoldwynMayer have had dancing ensemblea for several of their pictures. Above, a group of girls about to step their routine. At right are three other girls
from " Diziana"
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Think They're Hard
BELFRAGE
On Their Honor
JUST as an example of the way things have changed — I'm willing to bet that nobody thought there was such a thing as "a sense of honor" among chorines. Yet that is what Russell Marlcert, who trained the girls for L'niversai's " King of Jazz," found it expedient to appeal to. Marlcert knew all his girls by their first names and made a sort of family matter of the work. And the girls looked on him as a pal of the higher and better sort, and didn't slack on the job. Markert never had to call upon the Deity to make the girls put vim into their high-kicks. He just told them what to do, and they were too dashed decent not to put all they had into the execution of his commands.
Then you can toddle over to First National and seek out His Excellencj', Larry Ceballos. And what do you find.' The same spirit of friendliness, co-operation, shoulder-to-shouldcr and give-and-take, only perhaps more so. Now Larr> admits that there are chorines deolorably lacking m the fine new spirit. Often they are extremely clever, but they find it impossible to conquer the demons, disobedience and unpunctuality. Then they have to go. But Larry has weeded all such poorly greased parts from
Helen Fairweather, at right, a decorative
mcmbrr of Fir^t National
his high-kicking machine long ago; and, to-day, his girls on both Warner and First National lots are one and all of the highest type. According to Larry, the modern Hollywood chorus master's task is an easy one. so far as getting work out of his girls is concerned. A kind word here, a
^^m^ beaming smile there, and everything goes forward
Mf^Qt >^ithout a hitch.
^ Blushing Beauties
PARAMOUNT may have Holl\-w3od's softestspoken chorus master, but R-K-O has the most refined set of girls in town, if we may believe Pearl Eaton, directress of high-kicks for that emporium. Pearl spent many weary weeks separatmg sheep from goats, and interviewed four thousand girls to get a chorus of forty. The group finally selected was made up of girls of such a high type that when Ivan Lebedeff was brought up and mtroduced, and kissed their forty right hands, all but three of the girls rushed off and buried their heads in their mothers' laps. Pearl Eaton immediately knew that all was well. She proceeded from the first moment on "Kindness to Chorus-Girls" lines, and everything has been hunkydorj right along. Not only has she encouraged her girls with kind looks and words, but she has given each of them a chance occasionally to do a specialty or speak a line or two. As a result, she has made herself securely popular. The girls will do anvthing for Pearl Eaton, and you have only to watch them at work to know that the very idea of harshness or strained relations between Pearl and girl IS unthinkable.
All of Hollywood's chorus directors agree that there's just one reason for the change in chorusgirls — competition. The glamour of the studios attracts so many girls that there {Continued on page 05)
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