The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-12-13
FLO FLO"

FLU r LIZ
So far as this town is concerned,
the people who press agent Flo Flo
make . mistake in their way of adj
vertising the play. While not coming
out and saying SO, they create an i'm
preston that it is decidedly bold, and
while the theater-going world is so
used to glaring displays of the fem
mime form, and to songs and jokes
that border on (and often cross the
border) indecency, that its shock
nerves are atrophied, yet there are
considerable number who will, not go
to q performance if they suspect there
is something in it that may not be
discussed IN polite society. There was
IN impression out that Flo Flo was
over the border. and it is our opinion
that the said impression diminished
rather than increased the attendance
Those who braved this impression
were agreeably disappointed There
Is nothing shocking -now-about File
Flo-tho fifty years ago the first act
would have caused stampede to the
street. in any American theater, and
the fact that any married man WOULD
have gone to see it alone would have
given his wife cause in any court for
divorce. But we have advanced. in half
q century and learned that true mod
esty 10 not always wrapped up in
clothes. Flo Flo is bright and pref
ty play. There is nothing in it that
. lady may not look upon with ap-
proval-nothing that a pureminded
man (if there is such PERSON. may
not view with equanimity. 1t is true
that the sight Of young lady in pub
lie arrayed entirely in her corset, her
responsibilities, her shoes and
stockings, ID somewhat unconvention-
81, but even 80 she is more modest
than when she Frances forth attired
in . grass mat and string of beads
around her neck, or when she sings,
Take Oh 3 little bit MORE" and suits
her actions to the words. Also there
was .. scene or two in which when the
fairies were in the spotlight there
was not much left to the Imagination,
but this was not any more interest
ing than the parade on the streets
any warm summer afternoon, when a
man can stand in some convenient
place where he can look westward
We noticed that quite a number or
the married men present did not
bring their wives. In this they made
. mistake, for in our opinion the dis
play Of lingerie was very gratifying
to any matron of good taste. It
might have been, more so, tho, to a
bride-to-he. planning her trousseau. It
was some lingerie. all right; we rather
admired it ourself, and, SO far as we
were able to judge, it was modestly
displayed. We rejoice to know that
the great American public is getting
rid Of its primeval ideas of modesty,
first impressed on it by the pilgrim
fathers, whose lady friends were COM
pelled by the climate to wrap up in
about fourteen pounds of rag carpet,
with an extra trimming of bearskin
on chilly day. They inoculated
themselves with the idea that human
nature wasn't human nature as long
40 Il WAS covered up, and while they
have pretty well disabused them
selves Of that error around Plymouth
Rock il yet clings to some other parts
Of the country.
There 10 good acting, good music,
considerable humor and much grace
I'll motion in Flo Flo. All the girls
are pretty on the stage, and look fair
IL well OF Of it. When Jack Norton
and Joe Elvy came on, we thought
they were surely Potash and Perl
muttef. Tom Gordon was pretty
fair imitation of good boy from the
sticks, hut John Ross and Andy Fran
els - Pink and .Mudd are certainly
the stars of the cast. Cordelia Hanger
plays Flo Flo, who is looking for
fame and fortune. and as long as she
hangs on to her face and her shape
she has . more than average share of
both. The shop girls. displaying the
goods Of the bride Shop" gave
Ocala . fair idea of most important
division Of New York department
store, which is the greatest show any
woman wants to see. The music is |
good; there is no voice of extra ability, |
but there is . pleasing total
In short, Flo Flo is play of con-
siderable merit, and if it makes re-
turn date in Ocala everybody who
didn't go this time will Sc it the next.
Their was big gallery attendance,
but the lower floor was not more than
two-thirds filed. A good many peo-l
pie came in from the country, some |
from - Tar away as Inverness and
Leesbuxg, while points inside the
county were well represented.