WILL OPEN HOTEL
FOR CHORUS GIRLS.
MERRY-MERRIES ARE TO HAVE
ONE ALL THEIR OWN.
New Enterprise Here, Behind Which
Is Miss Ethel Dovey -- Unless
It's a Press Agent's
Dream.
Chorus girls are to have a hotel in Kansas City which will be used exclusively for show girls, if the plans of Miss Ethel Dovey do not go amiss. Preparations to establish such quarters are being made by a real estate agent, who was commissioned by Miss Dovey to keep her in touch with available pieces of real estate that would be suitable for the chorus girls' hotel.
The story leaked out last evening when it was learned that Miss Dovey was negotiating for a site, and it was said that immediately upon the arrival of "A Stubborn Cinderella" company, in which she is showing, that she would endeavor to close a deal with her agent. She is a Kansas City girl, and several months ago, at a meeting of a crowd of show girls, she promised them that she would do her best to establish a hotel similar to those in New York and Chicago.
Miss Dovey has succeeded in interesting George Dovey, president of the National League baseball club of Boston, and he has promised to help her in furthering the project. It is said that he has pledged $10,000 to the fund being raised to establish the hotel.
In certain respects the hotel will be conducted on the plan of the Martha Washington in New York. While the rules and regulations of the hotel are not known at this time, it is said that the "stage-door Johnnies" will not be welcome. Sad, but true, there is some doubt as to whether they will even be admitted to the hotel at any time. The girls will be required to be at home within a reasonable time after the close of the performance. If mere man should want to see one of the girls he would have to telephone, or use Uncle Sam's mail system.
Expenses of running the hotel will be divided pro rata each week when a traveling show appears in Kansas City. The hotel is to be at the disposal of every traveling company, even including the burlesque. The gentle sex will have the exclusive use of the new quarters, and will therefore be better provided for than they are at present.
The hotel is to be called the "Ethel Dovey," in honor of the fair promoter. Miss Dovey will be at the Willis Wood Sunday with her uncle in "A Stubborn Cinderella." If the plans now being made carry, the "Ethel Dovey" hotel will be in readiness by next Wednesday, and "A Stubborn Cinderella" company will be the first one to occupy it.
