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...Rita. Who would be likely to open a Manhattan theatre of dreamy elliptical architecture, hung with gorgeous tapestries, rich with color? Florenz Ziegfeld. In it he presented no Follies last week, but a musical comedy with fresh, feathery ballet dancers and a chorus that made strong men sigh. Rio Rita had a plot-something to do with oil leases and statesmen. A plot however, is mere parsley when the eyes and ears are well feasted. Pinwheel. Expressionism went on a debauch at the Neighborhood Playhouse (Manhattan) last week. Coney Island calliopes tooted, factory whistles shrieked, elevated trains jangled, klaxons yowled...
...Foolin'. Florenz Ziegfeld's annual summer side show is not this season called the Follies. For reasons of litigation and liabilities the Follies, which are not owned completely by Mr. Ziegfeld, may never reappear. For this cruel fact there might be a few moments of national mourning. The Follies started in 1907 and became indisputably the sovereign of all the annual revues. Of late years they have had more competition and were occasionally surpassed by others. Yet the name Ziegfeld Follies was as sure a trademark of excellent entertainment as one could find in the show business...
...great many healthy young women from country towns have chirped and kicked, at one time or another, in the annual musical revues of Mr. Florenz Ziegfeld-so many, in fact, that the "Ex-Follies Girl" now has the weight of "Ph. D." or "Elk": it connotes membership in a sort of national oddfellows' society...
...mark!) Expressionism. I herewith depone that this is emphatically not the case. It is not so very long ago that the first trained elephant stepped proudly into the first saw-dust ring, but the art of entertainment as practiced by Mr. Barnum (as well as by William Shakespeare and Florenz Ziegfeld) is a very ancient art indeed. Nor has it changed so greatly...
...seller with an English accent. She is gracious, with a cool, reassuring voice, nimble limbs, modish good looks. The diligent Sigmund Romberg has drained off another resonant score to match his The Student Prince (TiME, Dec. 15). There is a military chorus to boom close harmony and rumble rifles. Florenz Ziegfeld has window-dressed the scenes far above the usual art-calendar level. The book has been only partially translated from the lumbering German. It would lose momentum but for Errol's hind legs...