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Show 'joi i sLocm OFFERS 'THE KISSING GIRL' Spoclnl rotum ongagoment Ogdcn Theater three performances, Saturday mnllnco nnd night and Sunday, February Feb-ruary 4 nnd 6. . This company continues to bo pelted pelt-ed with rosonto compliments from Jaded Jad-ed patronB of the playhouses for having hav-ing "put ovor" a sensational success In "The Kissing Girl," Mr. Stnngo's and Mr. Von Tllzbr's broiler-less and showgirl-less romantic operetta. "Why, thoro Isn't a musical production of recent re-cent years of almost n generation which hns dared to fly so brazenly in tlie face of tradition; not a ono that has dared to refrain from aping, In ono featuro or another, tho hncknoyed methods and situations and tricks which were laugh-getting only because tho playgoer must If-ugh, and in his nlmost pathetic deelro for excuse to do so seized on tho first prctoxt thnt offered. But In "The Kissing Girl" thore la nfforded that nlmost forgotten forgot-ten circumstance, "Reason." It provokes pro-vokes tho "sane laugh," which phrase must be quoted as, In Its rarity, it has almost died put, amid tho Inter-wlndlngs Inter-wlndlngs nnd death struggles of spine-loss spine-loss musical comedy, with Its barking of a metronome chorus and Its shuffling shuf-fling of broiler feet, |