New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-04

any circumstances in the production of
our offerings.
"And you should see how we select
our girls-the sweet ones in our great
choruses," he says. "There was a time
when a turned-up nose could be passed
if the young woman could sing and pos
sessed the other qualifications for en-
tering a chorus. But now turned
up nose is impossible.
"A daub of the proper kind of paint
and smile once had been able to hide
g little mark of LONELINESS in girl on
the stage. Now she has to be tip-top,
with no marks against her whatsoever.
There you have the answer for our
beauty chorus Of to-day. l dare say
we have the most wonderful array of
young women in our new chorus that
ever graced stage in any country at
any time. The peoples demands have
been responsible.
eve are forced to give the public
what the public wants. think l should
not say that we are forced to do it,
either Because we know that our sue
cess in the business depends upon Civ
ing the public what it wants. &c.
rather, we are eager to give it what it
wants. And we have sensed in advance
that the public was going to be more
critical and was going to demand more.
We have beaten them to their protests.
There's not a chance for them to sit
down and look at our production and
say in honesty that we haven't pre-
sented the prettest lot of girls they
ever saw"
There is one thing certain" Shu-
bert representative says, land that is
that our artists are much encouraged
with their present audiences. In other
days an actor never could determine
just when some person in some part
Of the house was going to below forth
with a laugh that would rock the build
ing just when it was hoped there would
be utmost silence. For this reason the
artist is more able to speak his lines
properly. He is less uneasy. He has
begun to feel audiences of day are
not going to laugh when he is reciting
passage from 'Gunga Din"
This man agrees that the stage scenes
must be Of a higher order to-day
than they were previously.
1--WE hear gasps and grumbles
derella's great slipper is caugh. in the
flies above the stage. as it was, I'm
sorry to say, on the opening night.
There was time when thar
would not have been noticed. There
fore, we have to be more careful in
our work"
1t is true, also. that the selection of
song material for the large produc-
tons has undergone great change
for the better John Murray Ander-
son, the young producer of the Green
witch Village Follies," whose task it was,
and is. since he is now in the process
of completing his cas-. for new YER
sion of the production, to select
number of song hits" for his show.
knows that the work he selects
must be the very best that is written.
He will use no silly love ditties such
as for so many years have found their
way into the Broadway playhouses. 1t
may be a song about love and all
that. but it must be written in u
sensible fashion
"A meaningless song of sentiment"
says Mr.. Anderson. "is the hardest
thing in the world to make a success.
and | am trying to work into nv new
Greenwich Village Folles' songs that
Will have meaning and that can be
sung by the entire family. In the past
some of the most beautiful music ever
written has been spoiled by its trite
and uglx weed., Tks puhlIs .asdsy 10
thing IN Q sonH."