Evening star., 1923-12-18
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Florenz Ziegfeld's Greatest

He who would completely and lust
1y review what +. Ziegfeld himself
has announced by telegraph to he the
greatest show he has ever attempted
must needs be equipped with knowl-
edge not only OF ordinary theatricals,
including plot construction, acting
and stasecraft, but of music in it's
wide range from popular to classic,
the art of describing the wonderful
creations of the costumer, the milli-
ner. the bootmaker and the furrier,
and almost an infinite host of other
things which play an important part
in the construction of the type of en-
tertainment which has made Mr.. Zieg-
field famous in the amusement world.
The masculine theater patron who
has made it his business to see and
10 size up iegfeld creations since the
1irst, at least so much of him as at
tended the National Theater last
night. called kid Boots" with Eddie
Cantor and Mary Eaton, "a good
show" The fellow who has not yet
become connoisseur, in his wild en-
thusiasm, simply called it great.
Everybody laughed and many, very
many of the beautiful women pres
ent Just murmured splendid and
then sank into an ecstacy of dreams
of the beautiful the wonderful things
that chiefly delight the feminine heart.
First of all. kid Boots" has what
they say sally" hadn't--comedy, and
lots of it, Eddie Cantor is amusing,
very. Then kid Boots" has a Mary
Eaton TO match "Saily's" Marilyn
Miller-and Mary is exquisite. This
time Mary is not only a dream as a
dancer. but a real delight as a singer,
for she sings not with the volume of
"A calliope. but with sweetness and
charm that gets you whether you
think she is Il vocal artist or not.
Next there is that miniature bit Of
dron and eccentric deliciousness
called Marie Callahan, whose per
formance is q liberal education in
cuteness and delight; and Jobyna
Rowland. with all the distingue
atmosphere in which the four nun
dred are bathed. combined with some
other indescribable things, which
make her travesty of osteoEathy and
sympathetic protest against dryness
what the kiddies and the buriesque
reviewers call "a scream
Then there are Beth Beri-my, how
she can dance; Harland Dixon, who
can report society or play the tough
as occasion may require. and who
also is the last word in eccentric
pedaling. with the striking beauty
and vocal co-ordination of Ethelind
Terry, to say nothing Of Harry Short
and Paul Everron, rival sporting
goods men; John Rutherford and
Harry Fender, rivals for Polly Pen
dleton's hand = Polly being Mary
Eaton-an golf galore. for the
whole story of the entertainment is
woven of a romance on the golf links.
and some of the fun and much of the
lyrics have golf for their theme.
But that isn't all, by jugful
Imagine. if you can. myriads of
girls of every type of beauty and
with every conceivable charm, cloth
ed more or less. more rather than
less, in all the colors of the rainbow,
in a Palm Beach setting of the ar
lists imagination, with all the tricks
OF artificial lighting known to the
stage rivaling the golden glory of
the moon and the twinkling beauty
of the stars in sky of that deep
blue which the Russian Spectacles
have made so popular, and the whole
fashioned and shaped by the highest
experts in the art of creating cos
TUNES, scenes, effects and illusions
that never exist except in the dream
land of the spectacular stage, and
perhaps you may be able to guess the
remainder.
1t takes three pages of the program
to give the faintest outline of the de-
tails, and they do not give the slight
est idea of how pretty the music is or
what and how funny the comedy is.
and they do not tell line OF the
story. It's a Ziegfeld trick to make
YOU go to see the show, and if you
DO Won will probably not be dis
appointed.
Anthony Mcclure. the playwright. and
Otto Harbach, noted in musical COM
edy, wrote the book: Joseph McCar-
thy wrote the lyrics. but you probably
will not know what he wrote unless
YOU buy the book, while Harry Tier
ney wrote the musc-and the music
is pretty, very pretty, but whether or
not 1t is popular" you must deter
mine for yourself.
Nan Halperin. Songs and
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