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Unfortunately, this illusion is shattered. The patron saints of Boston dramatic culture, apparently, are no longer Ibsen, Galsworthy and Shaw, but George M. Cohen, Irving Berlin, and Florenz Ziegfeld...
...dodos and dinosaurs, the officials and guides recognized him. Leaving the Times Annex, chorus girls cheered him from the windows of their dressing room in the Apollo Theatre. On his way to the Herald-Tribune offices he was pointed out by the inimitable Will Rogers to a bevy of Ziegfeld Follies beauties who immediately broke into raucous cheers...
Patrons are agreeing that the following musical diversions merit particular attention: I'll Say She Is, George White's Scandals, The Grand Street Follies, The Ziegfeld Follies, The Dream Girl, Chariot's Revue, Stepping Stones, Kid Boots...
Life is getting harder for the chorus girl. Last week Florenz Ziegfeld issued a general order (by telegraph, as is his custom) to omit Imogene Wilson from further performances of his current Follies. And all because she got herself in the newspapers for an alleged punch in the eye at the hand of Frank Tinney, piebald comedian...
Imogene meant no wrong. She was simply striving for an honest living. Ziegfeld has blocked her road, because Tinney blacked her eye. The time may come when a chorus girl will be refused honest employment simply because she has married the third or even the second millionaire, or because she has dropped a handbag containing dynamite in a crowded taxi-cab. "What's going to become of us?" conscientious, multimarried chorus girls are asking. And there simply isn't any answer...