Omaha daily bee., 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 80 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
nroximately / 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 % per cent OF the
girls employed each year marry. That is
Is of every 100-about so to 90 or the
total number Of ESQ., 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 beyy
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 a wife, Yet l know that every
man is unconsciously looking for a wife.
The average man doesn't know how to
go about it. He doesn't know the type
of woman that will appeal to him. He
has no coherent conception OF his I'M
II
know what girl to select that Will ap-
peal to a man. l visualize his ideal.
find it's physical incarnation; there
fore in selecting girls for my chorus, my
difficult task is to find girls that viii
appeal to a proportion Of male audiences
as possible wives.
But married men 90 to see your prize
choruses, you say. They DO. WnyE
Marriage does not destroy an admira-
ton for beauty, and then, perchance,
some may go to see what they have
missed
Admiration for beauty 10 what brings
men to my productions, and the eternal
quest OF man for his ideal type is what
brings dollars to my pockets. l meet
the demand-I get the box office re-
ceipts.
To ind a wife for one man would be
quite easy. But to 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
final decision is mine. Long experience
has rendered the task less difficult than
It used to be, and now / select girls with
a knowledge that is scientific, with the
unerring and untailing 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 fiowersf
One rule rigidly applies. l cannot
select girls of one type. A chorus OF
brunettes would be q failure. A chorus
Of blondes would be failure. 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
gem of purest ray serene, without fiaw,
yet with hundred different facets. Cen
orally follow a rule of selecting 25 per
cent brunettes, rs per cent blondes. and
so per cent medium types.
Do tastes change az the seasons pasBf
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 meet
the demand for girls with Titan hair
there are too few. What happens II
have an oversupply Of blondes in a sea-
son when the taste for brunettes pre-
Vailsl Adapt the chorus to the popular
taste. In any case, / must always have
In my chorus a supply of girls OF every
type, and II one type Is exhausted by the
demands Of matrimony / must NIL the
vacancies with the same type.
What type Of girl marries quickestI
Slim girls. Youth and slenderneBs are
the supreme requisites.
What type OF girl marries last2 For
what type is there the least appeal7 The
fat girl. There is little, II any, chance
for the fat girl. Alas, but why shed
crocodile tears over the inevitable YER
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