New-York tribune., 1921-06-26
BY Harriette Underhill

sust as all of the Dooley family has
done ever since we first saw them.
Gordon and William and Johnny have
been weighed in the balance and found
charming. They are so earnest over
their work, and they rehearsc for
weeks just to get the effect they want
in scene, which is that of never hav
you how to weave dialogue just as
wooden manufacturer can tell you how
to weave cloth. They know the latest
style in jokes and why what is funny
is funny. They have it all figured out
They know the psychology of falls;
they know just what effect a we'll di-
rected kick is going to have on the
audience, and everything else that
comedians ought to know.
Sister Ray Dooley is just as funny,
Theater at the first matinee of the new
Follies and were duly thrilled. What
we had meant to ask was how she can
possibly appear at the back of the thea-
cock has stuck her, head foremost,
into huge jar which stands on the
stage. Almost before her feet had
disappeared she appeared in the back
Of the house and rushed down the aisle
shouting. Papa, papa, come out;
they're stealing our Ford!"
tits trick" said the man next to
us, just as though he was saying some
thing Of great import. No one had
believed that Miss Dooley was twins
And Some Go to
Visit Germaine
However, with our heart set on Miss
Dooley, our dramatic editor had in
sisted on our doing Germaine Mitti, the
new French dancer, imported by Flo
Ziegfeld. Every one has been pick
ing on us lately to do French subjects,
and our experience with Carpenter
convinced us that our French was not
the sort readily understood by Pari-
siennes.
ooh, that's all right" said the manx-
ger. "Mitti always has an interpreter"
So, between the acts, to Mitti's Dress
ing room we went Mitti's is the most
marvellous looking creature we have
seen in very long time. Such fig
ure and such color! On the stage she
appears to be about the color Of coffee
when it has just the proper amount of
cream in it. But, alas! we have seen
what No. grease paint can do, and we
had no faith in that tan. However,
when we got close up to Mitti, she
didn't appear to have any makeup on at
all. She has short bobbed hair that is
black and straight as an Indians,
great black eyes and dazzling white
teeth.
what a marvellous coIor!" we ex-
claimed, "and she hasn't any makeup
on"
What, what?" said Mitti, eagerly.
The interpreter repeated what we had
said and Mitti responded with "Non,
non. am so--all over!" Suiting the
action to the word, she extended one
slender brown leg with gold sandal
on the foot and q brown arm with a
Jeweled snake twisted around it.
Somehow, you don't expect to see Mitti
wearing any clothes. She doesn't need
them any more than the Venus de Milo
needs them. No wonder artists are
kneeling at her door begging her to be
their model. just to look at her is
enough to make an artist seize his pa.
iette and smear it with wonderful vel
low ochres and burnt umbers and sepias
and Indian reds.
isn't she beautifully" we exclaimed
My husband is an artist" said the
Interpreter, "and he thinks she is the
Z most beautiful woman he has ever
SEEN" Mitti understood this and again
she said, "Non, non," and then some
thing rapidly in French. "She dislikes
her own looks and wants to be blond.
She says that the American women are
all SO lovely and nearly all blond"
Mitti Discusses
The Weather
WELL" we answered, "just tell Mitti
that she is not to become a blond lust
because she Is going to become an
American. You like America ?" we
asked Of Mitti, and she answered, "Oui
but it is SO hot"
"You do speak English, don't you ?"
"Only 1T is SO hot say all time. +"
Armed with this Mitti ought to be able
to get along very we'll for the next
three months, and by that time she will
speak English fluently. That is the way
with those clever foreigners.
In the center of Mitti's dressing
room stood silver vase much taller
than the little dancer herself. 1t was
filed with American Beauty roses
which reached almost to the ceiling.
"Mme. ziegfeld sent them," explained
Mitti. "and she is so beautiful" 1T
seemed strange to hear our own Billie
Burke referred to as Nine ZiegfeId.
Gcrmaine Mitti's parents are French,
but she was born in Spain. None of
her people were on the stage, she told
us, and nQne of them were dancers az
like" she said naYvely, showing all of
her pearly teeth, and then Tilio, her