The New York herald., 1922-01-27
Musical Play Is Presented in
Plaza Ballroom Before
Audience Of ] 200.

peared last night in tho Plaza Hotel in
Ready Made" their annual musical
and dramatic offering, which is the besc
entertainment of the kind that unique
and resourceful organization has given
In its history of twenty years OF ap-
piled philanthropy. Additional perform
ances will be given tonight and t.
morrow night. A cabaret. with added
bits of amateur cleverress. followed last
nights opening, and similar midnight
frolics will come after the other pre-
sentations of the musical play.
A thousand persons attended the OPEN
ing ard the seats and boxes in tho bali
room theater also 1eve been sold for
tho additional performances. As seats
have brought So each and as there has
been an additional income from the
boxes, Mrs. Vincent Astor, chairman os
the entertainment committee of the
league; Miss Grace Il. Henry. the pro-
ducer, and Mrs. Henry Potter Russell.
the treasurer have well founded hopes
OF gross income of more than $4,000.
"Ready Made" is tho most ambitious
as we'll as the most amusing "shcw'' the
Junior League has undertaken. IT has
of Broadway. Miss Henry wrote the
book and most of the lyrics. The music,
some of which promises to be heard
later by n larger public, is the result of
a collaboration between Mrs. st. O..
Brooks Tucker and Messrs. Emerson
MacMillin Sd, Jack s.traus. Paul Stew
art. Gerald j.. Warburg, Gerald Rey-
nolds and Francis w. Hatch.
Retail Detail Tells story.
The retail detail. in a prologue. two
acts and ten episodes, tells story novel
in musical comedy. Two manikns In
opposite windows .f q Fifth avenue
shop ycarn passionately for each other.
but, being inanimate things, they can
only instilI the black and white check
suit on one and the green taffeta dress
on the other with the love they would
express.
The suit and dress meet In a Fifth
avenue apartment. inspiring the wear
ers 10 love at first sight, but the dress
is stolen by maid who would dazzle
ia its shlnmering greenncss other maids
at Sweeney's dance hail. There the
dress i'm its third phase meets the sult
that has been stolen from the very back
OF the original owner by genial thug
Flash Connors The maid and the thug
decide TO 'go 1t straight" and sell their
III tOttcn me ClOtneS 10 Dol LCucfSkr
in Hester street to meet their wedding
expenses. In the fourth phase the dress
and suit meet on vaudeville stage, and
I'm their downward path eventually find
their way into the ash can.
Principals and chorus to the number
OF $50 sang and danced their way
through veritablo flood OF sprightly
scenes and tingling music without a
slow moment from the time the openins z
chorus sounded the text or the piece.
Clothes inspire emotion" 1t was we'll
sung by tho chorus. with the tall Miss
Speyers. as THE Spirit of Clothes" in
a clinging creation I'm canary colorod
velvet, revealing n pleasing soprano
voice In the solo part OF the responses
Of The Dress and The Siu. Fifty mem
bers of the cast burst upon the stage
In the opening in costumes that doficd
the spectrum.
Miss Isabel Rockefeller led the sales-
isdies. who Included Mira J. Theus
Munds. Mrs. Seth Low and the Misses
Raymonde Almirali Helen Johnson,
Elizabeth Kountze. Katherine Post and
Margaret White.
Audience Joins I'm Chorus.
Two OF the best scenes were In the
| Fifth avenue apartment and in Lc-
uCfSfVS second mana store. In the nrB'
/ Mr.. Henry Clapp Smith, an amateur oi
| professional caliber. sang song BY
Miss Henry and Mr. Reynolds called
"Ah. Gwan, Don Juan" that had TO b'
repeated so many times that the audi
encs at last began Joining in tho chorus
All, Civnn. Don Juan.
Tho he some kid.
Way back there IN Madrid.
Don Juan woud't bo any paragon.
Ife'd land MatfepWan
IL he'd lived to-day.
The dance that accompanied tn
song, with Mrs. Van Henry Cartmell
Jr.. Mrs. Robert Levy and che Misse
Muriel Vanderbilt, Suzanne du vivie
and Hope Bush. all ststuesdue brunet
In superb Spanish costumes, was one o
the "splashes" OF the performance !
also was In this episode that Mis-
Eleanor Sawyer. who is one OF tn
few amateur actresses OF tho league q
decide TO find career on the pro
fessional stage. proved her ability in th
eccentric part OF Mss susan SRodgrdSs
TIE Hester stree, shop served Go in
troduce Mrs. Henry Potter Russell Il
tho double role OF actress as well a
treasurer OF the production. As Non,
mcr Lonstsky she contributed a fev
| minutes Of excellent character acting.
The speed OF the start was maintsi sinet
IN constant succession cf soloa an,
dances with occasional dsshes into color