MISS MAY YOHE.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 2027, 17 September 1913, Page 3

MISS MAY YOHE.

A MISTAKEN VIEW. THE CHORUS GIRL AS SHE IS IN REALITY. The c h orus girl ani the modern young man known as the "nut" have oome in for the bitter attentions of a writer in the current nomber of the World. The chorus girl is described as a "foil bloo e«l vampire," drawn from an nne ucated class, who 1 learns to dance a few steps and to bleat a few commonplace vulgarities, . and wo centres her few brains on ; catching one or more of the raw | young men who will provide her I with clothes, pocket money and | food. MISS MAY YOHE'S VIEW. | In spirited language Mies May {Yo' e, who is appearing in the | highly successful rev< e, "Oome ! Over Here," at the London Opera l House, t iok up the cu gels on beJ alt* of the slan 'ered chorus girl. | "I don't like it," she said. j "The attack is cruel and unjust and i uncalled for. The public goes to i the theatre in comfo t and ias no consideration whatever for the girls lon the etae. They ■ on't think of the hours of ' a d work which have to be put in before the show can be produced. They see pretty faces ■ and t':ey wouldn'tpo to the theatre i at all if they <<idn't, but paint and tinsel doesn't do everything. The girl has got to be pretty behind the tinsel, and t ey have tot to be j bright and vivaci us and just because a young man falls in love wit > one of these girls when his i people want him to love some society girl, it is no reason wtiy a revenge should be taken on all chorus girl?. THE OLD CHORUS GIKL.

"In the old days the chorns was not so prominent. T ey sang the little songs and were like machines, bat the American girl has altered all that. S e is lull of life and gaiety; is witty, has spirit. Looks at t?.e great, broad country s e comes from. She puts life into everything. After all a man d es not want to sit next to a dressed up thing tnat cau't say 'boo' to anybody He wants a girl to be bright and witty, aan • these girls who are put into the limelight t ave got a great, big, debonair way about fc»em. "The men? They can look after themselves. When a young man comes down from Oxford or Cambridge t;e knows enough to look after himself. If he doesn't then he ought to be shipped off abroad." Miss Yohe's final sot at the World writer was t at nis facts were as wrong as hip language was exaggerated.