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Show Ballroom Music to Come From Plays Much of the music that will be heard In the bs II rooms and dance halls of America this winter Is contained In the scores rf two plays which came to Broadway this week, "The Iidy in .Ermine,'' and "The Yankee Irln-ccsa." Irln-ccsa." The playa will atay In New York for some time, but their music will be una;, whistled. Jaxsed adn played on phonographs throughout the length and. breadth of the land before anow 1 1 teg. The hits of "The I-ady In Ermine" are "When Hearts Are Young." "Ma-rana,f "Ma-rana,f . "Men Grow Older" and "I.and o Mine." he first two will be used for waits and fox-trot. "Men Grow Older" la a one-step. "Land o Mine" Is the most Inspiring march tiesrd since the war days. The waits hits of "The Yankee Princess" are "1 Ktill Can Ireern" and H OSes. Lovely Itoaes" Km erlrh Kal-IPHf Kal-IPHf wrote them. The composed the" waltx hits of "8arl," "In the Starlight" and "I'll Iance My Way Into our Heart" Indicate that he can also write catchy fox-trots. I believe Kslman'a music la Intrinsically Intrin-sically finer thsn that of Jean Gilbert Alfred trbodman trod Sidney "Romberg In "The Lady In Krmlne." but the latter lat-ter play is blessed with the voices of Wild Rennett and Wslter Woolf. This ican Woolf Is another John Charles Thomas. Man, he can sing: And act, too! VIcotenne Segal Is a captivating "Yankee I'rlncess." but her voice la a bit thin for music that demands a soprano of operatic timber. The comedy In "The Iady In Frmlne" Is largely thst of situation. The lines mean little. They simply afford Robert Rob-ert Woolsey and Helen Hhlpman the opportunttv to be very, very funny. John T. Murrsy Is such a good comedian com-edian In 'The Yankee Princess" thst he makes you laugh at lines like these "1 make look like Lohengrin, but I ie1 like a hesd of lettuce." "Don't you remember? I ahot the prince In the postscript." "His glsnce went straight through me and buttoned up the back." "It's women like you who make men like me like women like you." |