Word: fioretta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tremont--"Fioretta". Earl Carroll's half million dollar musical comedy, starring Leon Errol...
...this latest edition−a mockery fest which simultaneously jibes at world history, actors, producers, Broadway hits−Mimic Carroll simulates the jiggling gait of Beatrice Lillie (This Year of Grace), the lush, salivary speech of Constance Collier (the countess in Serena Blandish), the Jewish idiom of Fannie Brice (Fioretta), the long-legged, weaving rhythms of Gertrude Lawrence (Treasure Girl). He is far less successful in his one attempt to imitate a man, to catch the elusive implications of silent Harpo Marx (Animal Crackers). There are also two female mimics: Dorothy Sands and Paula Trueman. The latter sings...
...Fioretta. Inscribed over the stage door of the Earl Carroll Theatre, where passers-by on 50th Street may see it and be impressed, is the legend: "Through these portals pass the most beautiful girls in the world." This vanity of Earl Carroll's is not without some justification: the vapid beauty of his mannequins, who haughtily undulate to the clinking music of gold in the Carroll coffers, is without superior in any professional or amateur congress of pulchritude. Awareness of beauty in women seems to be developed in Showman Carroll to a degree beyond that of any of his competitors...
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