. Theatrical and circus life;. her art wishes to be considered awkward orin the rear; hence the emulation that exists, and theprivate rehearsals in the dressing-room. Many of theseballet-dancers live poor lives, getting salaries whichafter buying their stage dresses leaves them little for thecupboard and very little to waste upon street are frail, and have admirers whose purse-stringsthey pull wide open, and are therefore able to rustlearound in silks and sport rich golden and jewelled or-naments, while the honest girls must sup at home oncrusts and share the opprobrium their sha
. Theatrical and circus life;. her art wishes to be considered awkward orin the rear; hence the emulation that exists, and theprivate rehearsals in the dressing-room. Many of theseballet-dancers live poor lives, getting salaries whichafter buying their stage dresses leaves them little for thecupboard and very little to waste upon street are frail, and have admirers whose purse-stringsthey pull wide open, and are therefore able to rustlearound in silks and sport rich golden and jewelled or-naments, while the honest girls must sup at home oncrusts and share the opprobrium their shamless com-panions bring on the entire class. Ballet girls every-where have a throng of giddy, dissipating male follow-ers, and those who resist the temptations thrown intheir way are deserving praise rather than condemna-tion. Just as the Spanish have their Mauzai, the Hindoostheir Nautch girls, the Japanese that remarkabledance travellers have written so frequently and so muchabout, and each country its own particular sway or. NATIONAL DANCES, (237) 238 Tin: REHEARS \ whir], so this country Bee ma to have taken kindly tothe ballet. When a ballet dancer — one of the fa-mous dancers of the beginning of the century — pre-sented herselffor the firsl time to an Albany, New York,audience, the ladies rushed from the stage and therewas almost a panic. But it did not take long toaccustom the Albanians t the undraped drama, andthey are as fond of it now as any of the rest of the notover-scrupulous people of the country. Not so manyyears ago, there was a ballel cvciy night in the first-class variety theatre-: now there are few, except inthe Bast, that have this feature, and tor this reason —the abandonment of it in the West and South — thepeople who draw conclusions from everything they -and hear cry out that the ballet is dying out. This i>not so. The ballet has been dropped from the list ofattractions in the West, because the managers thoughtit too costly an institution f
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