The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-24
AT LOCAL THEATERS
HYPERION.
Anna Held and 3 Pretty Chorus En-
 chant Big Audience.

Anna Held, the lady with the deep titian hair. wonderful shoulders, amaz- ing frocks and things like that; the lady who began asking the Amerlcans to 'come and play wiz me" a deeade or so ago, and who has continued to So ask uninterruptedly with simply change of key and a fresh gown each wear to vary the monotony of the aues- ton: this same. Anna Held even unto the smallest of these allurements enter tained a large audience at the ny perion last night with The Parisian Model" the piece that has successfully served her for the past few seasons playing to the largest receipts on rec ord" etc, etc.
 And isn't she brimful of stunts, just this same Parisian Model? There's a stunt for every minute pretty near; there really is.
 There's so much for the pretty chor- us to do indeed, and so many different kinds of costumes for them to get i their slender little bodies into that sim j ply to write these down would occupy more space than The Journal-Courier could give to the entire show Ana i when these pretty little chorus glrls have done everything the stage man ager could think of for them with thelr little feet planted under them, he puts ! them on the horizontal, yes, flat on
 their backs, and they wriggle their lit
 tie toes in the air. and play tunes on
 sleigh bells fastened to every part of them,
 The Gay White Way" showed the
 same stunt in that Broadway potpourl l but modified so that this wasn't exact
 novel, but you were so glad to see
 the pretty little chorus girls get bll
 of a rest, for theirs is a strenuous road
 and the students made them do every
 thing a good many times, They wen'
 fairly wild when, at the end of this bel
 orchestra, the last girl kicked her slip
 per clean up into the balcony wher'
 a modest looking young man witf
 glasses on finally captured it.
 There is a lot of elegant femininity
 too, in that line of stately show girN
 that Miss Held has brought in hei
 wake. There's only one way to do jus
 tice to them and their enchanting
 gowns and that is to take each one lik'
 this: Miss Grey, in a cloth of golt
 frock. Empire pronounced arm-peer |
 you please. for that's only fair to s'
 lovely girD; Miss Green in a dres
 of black all shimmering with silve
 spangles, and looking exactly like al
 Helleu etching, SO perfect as to lin
 and so exquisite as to detail and Nils
 Joh--but the city editor roars 'cu
 down that notice" which is too ba : because Miss Johnson was so Gibson ?. esque, so tantalizingly remote and s ? deliciously naughty in her oyster whit 2 draperies. Any way all the other sho' s girls were like unto those two. Can
 you realize the temptation to give eac al least line or so?
 The Parisian Model is all abou Miss Anna Held and there has no been a demonstration like that mad over her entrance since football nigh She wore a broad Yale blue sash wit E 1910 across one shoulder and tha started the roar, which held the pla up few minutes. After that tn audience took lively but good nat ]. ured part in the show throughout which had its eumnation in tn cries of speech"
 Then Miss Held came down to tn < footlights, shading her eyes, bega . tentatively after peerng sharply alon 4 the solid rows of college men: l Ladies and gentlemen: l am gla ! that you are enjoying our play, W r enjoy you far more than you do us, or something like that, 1t did no . much matter what she said, ther { were cheers and cheers again. ! Even the topical songs, that are year or two old at least, and quit flat and stupid, even these brougr ! cheers, and the comedian could nc ! go until he had sung all he knew. l. The French star Is little stoute than when she was last here, and nc quite so dainty, Her efforts, too, ar l little too obvious now. She used { ! be subtler
 }, bul II IS frlskN snow Every NbodN 2 The Pirisian Model works hard, eve Pierpont Morgan and John D. Rocke ! feller and Hartman and Chaunce Depew and others of their clas They're all in one of the scenes an ] it was quite easy to pick them ou and one felt that it wasn't quite fai ! to make MT. Morgan sing a ragtim F quartet even if he did happen to hay r a good voice
 - The Parisian Model Is at the Hy perion again tonight