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Show The "flowery path," an oriental theatrical expediency ex-pediency whereby the actors enter and leave the stage by means of a bridge which extends over the seats in the auditorium, has been utilized at the Winter Garden in New York with telling effect. There is a runway two feet in width extending ex-tending from the rear of tho auditorium to the stage. It is directly in the center of the theater on a level with the shoulders of tho auditors when seated. In the flrst part, which is designated as "A Night With the Pierotts," Al Jolson marches half way down tho path and begins singing "My Sumurun Girl," and at tho refrain the entire company com-pany of one hundred and twenty-five persons follow fol-low him down the bridge to the stage. At the finale the exit is made in the same manner. The novelty of short-skirted girls and the array of beauteous principals tripping over the flowery path, was soon recognized and is the most talked talk-ed of feature of tho new Winter Garden show. Tho use of the run puts the audience on terms of intimacy with the perforr and raises that barrier between spectator ana player which the footlights are supposed to constitute. |