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NZ Truth, Issue 68, 6 October 1906, Page 6

The cr^e for wearing evening dress to any evening performance has reached an acute stage m Wellington and renders a view of the circle at such a show as Leslie Harris's, or at a bio' show at the Town Hall, a deliciously funny one to the stranger to Wellington's strange ways. Lj&lcily the men are beginning $p revolt and flow we continually have the spectacle of one 7011115 man m tweeds escorting three -*__' four fool women dressed to beat the. band, arid showing enough ohest ;tor a hunch of Clydesdale mares,. ' A shaky, physical wreck m the person qf Edward j; Norton Taylor, who was 'at- one, time employed' on one of the Christchurch papers, admitted when docked at the Police Court t'other day forging a cneque for . a quid. He had bought a hat, and boned the change. Swankey has been this man's undoing,- and he has been before the Court on a number' of occasions previously.. As far back as 1876 he was up on a similar charge. ; Taylor is now lodged at Lyttelton where he will stay three months, and consequently won't be able to see the opening of the exhibition, "Chorus Girl Famine" is the latest from New York. Only two turned up to an advertisement calling for, 400. Musical -comedy^managers say, "No girl— fat,- ,'le-aii, ■tn©diuni J or plain-r-is. nowadays . tiifned away . Fact is; all the chorus.are off to- summer resorts —waitresses,' 'to. wait on the rich and; swagger Summer ; Grirl Boarder .and' her best hoy. As a rule chorus girl carries, ott the best boy m a day or two- Result, gets waited on herself! - Now there should he all softs of a fine opening m the American cities next summer, for a lot of the splendid young creatures toy be seen on Wellington block and who yearn for a j chance to show their shape, on the [stage.'. ■ "■'.. , ■'■.'■: _'