New-York tribune., 1920-06-23
Snnartest New York
Enthusiastic Over
The New s'Follies''
Two Acts and 25 Scenes Full
of Mirth, Beauty, Music
and Clever Lines Make Up
Ziegfeld's New Production

Their Majesties, the Follies XIV,
succeeded last evening as lords Of mis-
rule and assumed sway over the realm
OF midsummer night dream
large cross section of sma-test
New York came to the New Amsterdam
Iheater for to admire and for 70 see
and it was we'll content.
Governor Edwards, of New Jersey,
was there to escape from the prohibi-
ton joke; Geraldine Farrar to gain
surcease from japanese motif; bunga-
low dwellers by the sea strand came
for relief from mountains of nudity
that billow along the sand-and each
one had his reward.
Prohteers who came at $11 head
for instruction in new degrees of ex-
travagance were edifed For has not
Mr. Ziegfeld clothed every shapely limb
in tights? And isn't it fact that
tights are more expensive his year
than ever? The principle of extrava-
gance!
Clean Recreation
And hundreds of ultimate consumers
thronged the spectacle to get away
from Egypt and the Egyptian angle
canoes. Nor were these trusting souls
thwarted- Il other producers do Mr.
Ziegfeld the Aattery Of imitation, those
giant shades of Ra and Thum, those
ghosts of gods Egyptian, will be exiled
to the wan precincts where no mur-
murs of Broadway come.
The Follies Of 1920" come grated
upon new stock of clean, delightful
recreation. The psalmist, weary of the
prosecutions of bad mon and wishing
ioiced to see Ziegfelds day.
The term Ziegfeld is to be under
stood in its corporate sense, meaning
James Montgomery, Irving Berlin. Gene
Buck. Joseph Mccarthy, Harry Tierney,
David Stampfer, Edward Royce. Victor
Herbert, Joseph Urban. Ben Ali Hag-
gin as we'll as Mr.. Ziegfeld himself. 1t
might even be stretched to include
schneider Anderson, who executed cos
tunes, and the Javan Studios, that pro-
duced the lrrldescent batlks.
The Folies are so generously CON
stellated that the mirror of courtesy
who presides over this column would
allow free press to perish ere giving
invldlous preference among so goodly
properted, equally meritorious per
formers as Mary Eaton, Jean Carroll
and Delyle Aida. It was their first ap-
pearance in the Folies and in the gen
eral festival they were favorites, Miss
Easton for dancing and the others for
voice and raiment. Bernard Granville,
clceroni to the plotless plot, had more
than speck of motley and decidedly
good voice.
~, IL,
maintained the tradition of the Follies.
Doubtless there are prettier girls, but
doubtless Broadway hasn't seen them
Two Acts, Twenty five Scenes
Mr.. Urban has spent his technique of
magniticence on several beautiful set
tines. notably, the two fnales. In a
third scene, THE Love Boat a picto-
rial fantasy of romantic Venice Ben
Ali Haggin has gone to the Middle
Ages for costume and scenic effect. The
second finale was a thunderous affair,
with voice, harp, lutte, cornet, sackbut,
psatery, cymbal, dulcimer, all manner
OF music and Art Hickman's band
Two acts and twenty-five scenes fur
nlsh scope for great variety of spe-
clalties. Any number of personalities
and things are traversed, including the
audience itself and the dramatic critics.
This last in scene entitled The Lit
tie Follics Theater- During Intermis-
sion.' The only concession made to
tho vogue for the Chinese was a scene
called "A Chins Fantasy which was
worth while It's thumbs up for
China-for q while at any rate "On
Fifth Avenue The Ziegfeld Sextet''
was modish bit we'll received.
A friendly audience paid special tri-
butte TO Fannie Brice. who sang in
Yiddish character, 'I'm vamp from
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