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Those who have their ear to the ground for musical comedy, will be repaid by listening in on The Student Prince, The Grab Bag, Lady, Be Good; Big Boy, Rose-Marie, Ziegfeld Follies, Music...
Louie the 14th. Leon Errol's legs straddle this musical comedy like those of the Colossus at Rhodes. Florenz Ziegfeld's latest musical pageant and village carnival has been produced on a scale of towering magnificence. It outshines a Mardi Gras festival and the Follies combined. But unless the book had Mr. Errol's legs to uphold it, it could hardly stand on its own feet...
...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...
Among the lists of laughter set to music, the following are particularly acceptable: I'll Say She Is, Big Boy, Ziegfeld Follies, Lady, Be Good; Rose-Marie, The Grab Bag, Chauve-Souris...
Over forty members of the club are now trying for places on the cast. The selection of the cast is not expected for some time, and all of the applicants will probably get some of the coaching of the Ziegfeld stars...