Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-19
Florence Ziegfeld, T.,
Who Has Found Wives
for 144O Men, Reveals
Some Curious Secrets of
What Makes the Elusive
Feminine Charm, Which
Men Find Irresistible

employ 100 girls; in the other 30 girls.
Constantly girls are leaving and their
places are filed. Constantly girls are
married from the shows. and new girls
are recruited. AS the years pass, my
chorus has no left-overs. Each year APP
proximately present to the American
public $50 fair faces. $50 enticing pairs
Of lips, 500 provocative, fascinating eyes,
500 alluring arms. 500 dancing, prancing
feet On an average 25 per cent of the
girls employed each year marry. Inat Is
% of every 100--ab bout so TO 90 Of the
Total number Of $50. During my career
have given wives to nearly $500 men,
Why do men go TO shows? To see
pretty girls.
Why do men want to see pretty girls?
Because, in his life, every man is look
ing for the Ultimate Girl, not for bevy
OF girls, but the one, precise inevitable
type that above all others appeals TO
him. My success is due to more than
taste.
No man consciously goes about look
ing for wife. Yet know that every
man is uncon sciously looking for a wife.
The average man doesn't know how TO
20 about it. He doesn't know the type
of woman that will appeal TO him. He
has no coherent conception OF his UNI
realized ideal. ], on the other hand,
peal to a man. ! visualize his ideal.
find its physical incarnation; there
fore, in selecting girls for my chorus, my
difficult task is to find girls that will
appeal to proportion of male audiences
as possible wives.
But married men go to see your prize
choruses, you say. They do. Why?
Marriage does not destroy an admra-
ton for beauty, and then. perchance,
some may go TO see what they have
missed
Admiration for beauty is what brings
men to my productions. and. the eternal
quest of man for his ideal type is what
brings dollars to my pockets. | meet
The demand-I get the box office re-
ceipts.
To find wife for one man would be
quite easy. But 10 select potential wives
FOR 100 men is decidedly difficult. Never
theless succeed. For ] know mems
tastes thoroughly. There Is no type. no
aspect of loneliness. no point OF feminine
beauty that stirs mems hearts to rapture
that do not know. Consequently select
the girls for my choruses personally; the
Anal decision is mine. Long experience
has rendered the task less difficult than
It used to be. and now | select girls with
n knowledge that Is scientific, with the
unerrng and unfailing sureness of
trained instinct.
What types Of beauty do men admire?
What demands must meet in gathering
the fairest of each years Spring Offering
Of girl flowers?
One rule rigidly applies. cannot
select girls of one type. a chorus Of
brunettes would be failure. A chorus
of blondes would be failure. a chorus
OF ponies, or a chorus Of Amazon girls
would be doomed to instant failure |
must embrace in my chorus, the entire
gamut OF feminine loneliness. For must
meet all tastes. My chorus must be a
gem OF purest ray serene, without flaw.
yet with hundred different facets. Cen
orally follow a rule OF selecting % per
cent brunettes, 25 per cent blondes, and
so per cent medium types.
DO tastes change as the seasons pass?
They do. The theatrical business is as
uncertain as the stock market One sea-
son brunettes are predominantly in de.
mand another, blondes; another. girls
with brown hair. You can never NEE;
the demand for girls with Titan hair
there are too few What happens il !
have an oversupply Of blondes in a sea.
son when the taste for brunettes pre-
walls? Adapt the chorus to the popular
taste. In any case, must always have
in my chorus n supply of girls Of every
type. and If one type is exhausted by the
demands OF matrimony | must fill the
vacancies with the same type
What type Of girl marries quickest?
Slim girls. Youth and slenderness are
the supreme requisites.
What type Of girl marries last? For
what type is there the least appeal? The
fat girl. There is little, if any, chance
for the fat girl. Alas. but why shed
crocodile tears over the inevitable ver-