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When, after an interim of three years, he put together another Follies (his 23rd) and sent it out to Pittsburgh last fortnight for a tryout, he knew he had no breathtakingly new ideas or humor. He knew the music was only cheerfully dependable, not intoxicating, and during the trial he bustled Composer Johnny Green ("Body & Soul") out to try and brush up the songs. But he had followed his old formula: really beautiful girls, the best tap and ballet dancing that money can buy, principals who are currently at top popularity, and the most perfect mounting, dressing, laundering, discipline...
...stars, the 70 "glorified" girls, the dance directors, technical men, wardrobe mistresses, musicians et al. of the forthcoming Follies, first in four years. With farewell whoops, the troupers trooped down the stairs to their special train of nine cars which carried them to Pittsburgh for a week's tryout before their Broadway opening...
...Dramatic Club performance of the work will be the first one in America, and as many New York managers are said to be contemplating the piece for professional production, the coming performances may be regarded in the light of an American tryout. In the past the Club has done many plays which were later New York hits, among them "Success", by A. A. Milne, which is now playing in Broadway under the title "Give Me Yesterday...
First Night. The idea behind this mystery play is far too ingenious for the job of play writing that Frederick Rath has given it. The audience are asked to consider themselves visitors at Sing Sing prison who have been invited to witness the tryout of a new drama. Among the spectators is "Governor Moore" (onetime Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith was there on the opening night) and "Warden Ross." Although the Governor repeatedly tries to have the show stopped, the warden and a young woman whose brother is sentenced to be electrocuted next day persuade him to see the thing...
Nina Rosa was nurtured through a debut in Chicago and a tryout at the St. Louis Municipal Opera. Manhattan audiences, watching the opening curtain, were reminded of that Hispanic musical durbar of a past season called Rio Rita. There were a number of handsome U. S. citizens transplanted to a South American scene. They apparently had been having difficulty in locating a gold mine in the Andes which had once been worked to a profit by the Incas. The plot grows more Incandescent when it develops that Jack Haines (Guy Robertson) has fallen in love with a lady (Ethelind Terry...