GRATUITOUS INSULT
MORALS OF CHORUS GIRLS
INDIGNANT PROTEST
LONDON, 10th May. Prominent actresses and managers are indignant at the charges made by Canon Guy Eogers, vicar of Birmingham, that chorus girls are being sacrificed to the modern Moloch,, luxury and license. , -. ■ <They say that the profession is often made the object of gratuitously insulting'statements. They deny that chorus girls*are exposed to greater temptations and dangers than women, in other walks of life. Miss Edith • Day, the _ American actress, expresses the opinion that English chorus girls are very charming, and modest. When the show is over most of;them immediately g6 to their honies in the suburbs. Miss Margaret Bannerman says that tho standard of the theatre is much higher than it rused to be. Chorus girls are not more exposed to temptations than girls in offices and shops. Mr. G. B. Coehran states that modern chorus girls livo the healthiest of hard-working lives. « Mr. Julian Wylie says: "Gone are the 'stage-door -johnnies.' The Canon is off the track."
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 110, 12 May 1930, Page 9
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