Judge — July 19, 1919 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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IBBONS for The embodiments of p shoes by John Si p chritude that he brings for- con Cadwald, Give a Thought to Beauty }} vara Gi tor such concen. states the pro- trated attention that occa- gram of the “Fol- By Lawtox Mackats sional recesses are needed . but without the custe Visions of goddesses had best ary phrase used gi be broken at times by views credit for articles of dress: “selected by Mr. Ziegfeld of mere men. Eddie Cantor’s helpless-worm contor- from designs by,” ¢ We trust that this omission is ations beneath the massive hands of the osteopath, printer's error, fo would be disconcerting to learn Johnny Dooley’s knockabout dancing, and Bert that Mr. Ziegfeld had slacked up in Williams as the sharpshooter’s assistant who the matter of shoe ribbons and not % keeps getting his function confused with that selected them from designs. But of the target, send us back to beauty with a such doubt is unworthy: it a3 rollicking rebound. onceivable that the Belas If there is any hero in the show—it B uld compro. 4 4 - would take a host of heroes to match the mise on so vital a detail. He heroines—it is Joseph Urban, creator of the might neglect to order an ade gorgeous stage pictures. John Steele looks quate supply of wit, or fail to ‘ the part and sings a number of songs quite yuarantee that the music was , nicely: but he isn’t the he he’s just a mov- strictly fresh, but shoe ribbons ah) 4 ing man to bring the ladies on and off the there he would abate nothing in the . stage. Somebody's got to sing something for pursuit of his ideals the girls to strut in and illustrate, and it might For what to him are idle jests and f as well be he. Urban fairly bowls us over with tinklings in comparison with supreme his wondrously conceived Visions of splendor sulchritude? The Greeks, generally re- y And down in the foreground of these more erred to as authorities on beauty, . : than earthly pictures Mr. Ziegfeld has placed g th nt to the chorus; & . carefully chosen animated embellishments that so does this modern hedonist. But, un- \ are by no means amiss. Where painted can- like the Greeks who presented shows } . { vas leaves off gladsome girlies be with people in them, he presents pec i The total impression is of scientific effi- ple (chiefly of a certain sex) with inci- ciency of beauty. Accepting the fact that dental words and music written around professional paragons of pulchritude are not then necessarily able to dance, sing.or be funny, Nor is he advocate of beauty in the the activities allotted to them are simplified abstract sense. Out of deference to the busi- toaminimum. John Steele and De Lyle ness men in his audience—downtown executives (fem.) Alda relieve them of all serious and buoyant Western buyers—who like to have : vocal responsibility; thanks to the come- ideas submitted to them in concrete form, he * dians their shoulders are bare of even goes a bit light on the philosophic aspects the fardel of jocularity; and thanks to loveliness and se it as a live ‘ : j Marilynn Miller, less lightsome sisters proposition, The “salad” number, for t off with an easy quota of capers. example, in which are shown how the ve a thought to beauty. Ami- ingredients of a dish of delight are assembled, Weapings able id But if you gave it to her, is decic y ore graphic than abstr appla what couldshe possibly do with it? comicbooks.com