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Annie Dear. Billie Burke has been prying about for a good play without success so long that her husband (F. Ziegfeld) tired of the search. He proposed to bring her back to musical comedy. Since her husband is quite without a rival in producing musical entertainment, Miss Burke consented. The outcome was Annie Dear...
...summoned to set to music her engaging comedy, Good Gracious, Annabelle. This will be remembered as a feathery adventure of an original young lady and a fierce cave man whom she reformed. It was chiefly characterization, unexpected remarks and utter nonsense. Apparently its elusive, airy quality confused Mr. Ziegfeld. He added toward the last a thunderous episode in slapstick and a beautiful ballet. The slapstick was funny and the ballet was a bore. The early episodes in the unadulterated Kummer quality made the show attractively successful...
Miss Burke, still brilliantly youthful, seized all the honors of the happy event although the cast included, with the usual Ziegfeld prodigality, Ernest Truex, Marion Green, Bobby Watson and May Vokes. Her voice is a pretty toy to be played with rather than taken seriously. Possibly the relative unimportance of the music made it seem so. Not that it mattered. The play and the character are more than an evening's entertainment...
...girl and music department, the following are most divertingly displayed : Kid Boots, The Grab Bay, Rose-Marie, The Dream Girl, I'll Say She Is, Grand Street Follies, Scandals, Ziegfeld Follies, Ritz Revue, Annie Dear, Dixie to Broadway...
Both the Lilliputians and Mitty and Tillio are regarded in Paris as belonging to the enthusiastic category of the "wows." In the Ziegfeld Follies, they seemed only pretty good. The former did a wooden soldiers march that might have created feverish rejoicing if wooden soldiers had not already marched so many miles