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Shubert-"Show Boat." Revival of Ziegfield's greatest and most colorful spectacle. Over 100 girls glorified, and a cast that includes Helen Morgan, Norma Terris, Sammy White, and Eva Puck in elaborate setting with tuneful scores. This show is worth your while...
Acclaimed as the last and greatest production of the master showman, Florenz Ziegfield, "Show Boat," which moved in at the Shubert Theatre last night, certainly did not disappoint the hopes of the most expectant. There is humor, there is a well-defined plot, there is love, hate, and pathos, all woven into one harmonious background of Jerome Kern's Music...
...romantic operettas are compounded of essentially the same ingredients, but it requires the touch of the master to mix them, and flavor to the right taste. That such a long piece as "show Boat" does not wear on the spectator is ample proof that Ziegfield knew how to alternate his music, his choruses, and his skits, and above all he knew the settings to render each most effective. The scenes before the tent of the shimmy dances, in the 1892 World's Fair in Chicago, the aberations of Captain Andy Hawks, and the hawklike watchfulness of his termagant wife...
Loew's Orpheum--"Whoopee". Eddie Cantor in the movie version of Ziegfield's musical comedy. A fair movie musical show...
Several of the lyrics of Florenz Ziegfield's new musical comedy, "Smiles", starring Marylyn Miller and the Astairs and which will be showing in Boston within two weeks, were written by Harold Adamson ex '30, former member of the Dramatic Club...