HOPE FOR A WICKED WORLD

Madeline Dupont of Eddie Foy Company, Says There Are no Tempations in Chorus.

That the chorus of a musical play is a training school for girls who are looking forward to the ascetic life of an opera singer, and that the girl of to-day goes into it in deadly earnest as to the bottom rung of an electric lighted ladder of fame, is perhaps the natural outcome of the successes that have been made through the chorus.

The examples of Alice Neilson, who started in the chorus in California, as a grand opera singer, and a hundred others who have worked their way up from the chorus into more or less high places on the stage, were bound to have this effect. But now comes a chorus girl who declares that the chorus is not only a school of discipline in which the rules are strict and life ascetic, but that it is a regular convent in which men are even scarcer than they are in well regulated finishing schools. It is Madeleine Dupont of the Eddie Foy "Over the River" company who makes this declaration.

"I have found no temptations in the chorus," says Miss Dupont, and then she proceeds to make several statements which would hardly be believed if it were not that they are vouched for by several members ofher family and her circle of friends and by many of the girls who have worked with her upon the stage.

"I have never received a mash note in my life," she says.

"I have never been out to a supper after the performance."

"A girl in the chorus is brought less in contact with men than in any other profession."

"I believe that there are fewer temptations in the chorus for the working girl than in any other line of business."