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Show I ( Wft the Firt fighter. H lHB J THE LITTLE DUCHESS. 1 hI'I Anna Held is not magnetic she is simply sug- M M " gestive. There is nothing which savors of novelty M I If! in the appearance of this woman, and her houses 1 5 are the result of consistent advertising and a heau- m 1 1 ( tiful background. t Ziegfeld knows what he is about, and he knows III that Anna Held is the name that draws the crowd, SI but he also knows that the succeeding audiences ijl " depend on her background. Novelty and orlgi- iii nality are not Anna Held's fortes. Her success is IK i I t the result of clever selection in the women who B f I ! stand behind her, and they are beauties bright. If K , 1 J ; ever persistent advertising showed results, this H r'l I ' ' stellar success of Anna Held is the cold, hard Si 'But IK y'SjIr proof. H ,i( F A vaudeville stunt here and there, a beautiful M hwi woman on the right corner and a background of m yM ' rodolent beauty is not a secret, because it Is a M ij Hi ' reality, and if ever a woman depended on colors H wM and light and the less fortunate of her sex, this H jj Held production is it. All and all, I think I am H kjifj l safe in saying that the show is the best this sea- B lllll N son, and it is hard to say who is the hit of the B jjif piece. The interest outside of the vaudeville H illl' ? stunts must center in the girls fencing, or bath- H ijijli I ing, or the Sadie girls, and that Courtney girl B jl iff in black caused a lot of startled exclamations. Ber- K t tha Hunter, the little Cheston and the Blake co- ijWJS quettes are other prize winners, and the vaudeville Hj i jlwji ! turns are immense. So, again, how much Held de- HI m j it pends on them. She is striking for a minute, but S l w her sameness is monotonous and well, the show mB F m l Is the "merrymerriers," and without them Ziegfeld H m would go broke. 5 b iiiz |