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Show ZiegfelJ Was a Genius in Realistic Painting The reason the Follies became the Institution they were nnd gave birth to new developments in lighting, costuming cos-tuming and plastiqne lay ln Zieg-feld's Zieg-feld's genius in using human beings as painters use the contents of color tubes. He possessed a peculiar Instinct In-stinct when It came to women. Some of his girls bad a quality rarer than beauty a uniqueness, some flag-waving characteristic you and I would never see. I have often sat with him at auditions au-ditions and wondered why he chose certain types. There might not be the faintest glimpse of charm only a long, lean body and a commonplace common-place face but afterwards, when the girl was made up and costumed, you saw what a magnificent structure that long, lean body was for i:s bannerlike ban-nerlike draperies, and how the blank-Iiess blank-Iiess of that face bad arranged itself Into two eyes that looked like stars and a mouth adventurous nnd exciting. ex-citing. Fannie Brice in Cosmopolitan Cosmopoli-tan Magazine. |
