Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 305, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1930 — Page 21

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CHORINE TODAY MUST BE MERE GIRL IN YEARS No Chance for Husky Spear Carriers of Past; Big Turnover Annually. flu I'nitrd Prrm * NEW YORK. May 2.—A1l that is gone now, the wheezes about chorus girls who have children in old soldiers’ homes. Broadway chorus girls, even the damsels working on a ’’commonwealth’’ (percentage of the box office receipts, if any) basis in shoe-string, fly-by-nights, arc young. They are very young. And they are not only young, but they must be able to tap dance and do other exacting routines in a manner that would astonish the spear-toters of the days of Frankie Bailey and Fay Templeton. Turnover Terrific The turnover in chorus girls is terrific as compared with the old days. A chorus girl lasts just about as long as it takes to fill a couple of teeth in the Columbia dental clinic. The lives of these corphees of the sadly matter-of-fact world of makebelieve always are fascinating and never more so than now, because one wonders why do they do it? The average business life of a chorine on Broadway has been reduced to less than three years. 16 U> 20 Average The usual ages of the ladies of the ensemble run from 16 to 20 years, which means that they are through before they can vote. Not one in 100 ever gets any farther. Why do they do it? Who wouldn’t rather tess flapjacks in Childs, where at any rate expert flapjack tossers are assured of steadier, more permanent income, and about the same chance of ever meeting any male better off than a snare drummer. Sports writers shed tears over the short business careers of their athletes, baseball players and professional boxers. Even a big freak, such as Primo Carne\\ under constant threat of varicose veins in his underpinning, has at least three times the business life expectations of a pretty, capable and hard-working chorus girl of 17. Shed a tear for the chorus girl, especially if she is in earnest about getting ahead on the stage. If she applies for a job young enough to have a chance of being accepted, she is too young to have acquired much formal education. Too Dumb or Proud If she is through three seasons later, a trifle faded, she is too dumb or too proud to go home and ’fess up. But, unless she is deformed, almost any wealthy girl can be useful to a producer when she is somewhere between 16 and 20. There are, by the way, more novice applicants for positions in the chorus than within anybody's memory on Broadway. Although chorus girls are more numerous, younger, and therefore prettier than ever the stage door Johnny has done a complete fadeout. His last stronghold on Broadway vanished when the Columbia burlesque folded up and left Times Square without a single place where a sailor could go and enjoy himself. It was a tradition at the Columbia to have Johns at the stage door and they were there nightly. A particularly hearty runway girl might be able to nick from as many as six college boys or visiting convention delegates. Life Sentence for Robbery JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., May 2. —Clayton Parker, who at 30 has spent more than one-third of his life in prison, is back in tpe state penitentiary for the rest of his days. Parker, who said that he suffered from “irresistible impulses to steal,” was given a life sentence on a third charge of robbery.

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Use Feeding Test to Check Ability to Hear Low Vibration Notes. fit/ firlmrr Service WASHINGTON, May 2.—Fishes have a good sense of hearing. They can perceive vibrations too low for the human ear to catch, and 3a n hear sounds clear to the highest notes of piano or violin range and a little beyond. At the meeting of the National Academy of Sciences here today, Dr.

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Declaring he considered the verdict a reflection upon his integrity, Rt. Rev. H. P. Almon Abbott, above, bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Lexington, Ky., resigned after an ecclesiastical court refused to unfrock the Rev. .Julius A. Velasco of Dayton, Ky., for marrying a Catholic. The bishop still will be eligible to sene as a priest. Dog Saves Aged Woman MINOR, N. D., May 2.—A pet bulldog saved Mrs. Lucy Wyatt's life. The 84-year-old woman was overcome by escaping gas fumes but was finally awakened from her deep and dangerous sleep by the howls, barks and yips of the household pet, who apparently sensed something wrong.

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Karl von Frisch of the University of Munich told how he wormed out collection of minnows the answer to the much-disputed question of how well fishes can hear. He appealed to the fishes in the way that is said to bring the best results with men; through their stomachs. He offered them food, at the same time sounding a tuningfork or blowing a whistle. After a while the minnows came to know that the sound meant dinner time, ind would come crowding up to the feeding place when they heard it, leaping and scrambling for the expected food. Dr. Von Frisch taught the fish to distinguish between sounds, by feeding them to accompaniment of one note, and scaring them off with a tap of a glass rod when he sounded another. In this way he learned how small an interval in pitch they could discern. The minnow with the best musical ear could distinguish perfectly the two sounds of a minor third —the “la-do” interval. The German scientist stated that he could not find a vibration rate that the fish could not hear. The lowest rate of any of his tuning forks, sixteen to the second, seemed to be perfectly perceivable to them.

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