Show 1 J a MUSICAL SACS L C COMEDIES MAKE Es STAGE LESS Gi SENSUOUS HITS 1 3 c cx x i iy a y t d r 5 t L k gib x tt r w wV wt V t o t H Hr i ri i r r 6 F T W w t y tots e 4 Mf r R IX IN THE MAGIC RI RING G BY JAMES JuIES W T DEA DEAN first real mu- mu E NEW TORE The YORK The The ecila comedy ot of the season to ar- ar arrive arrive arrivo rive on BroadwAy The Magic Ring I mean that Is tr the first of the Ithe new crop containing tunes which will ill be played pia ed on phone phone- halls through through- throughout throughout through lout graphs and In dance II out the land long lone before the play yes Gotham I In the dance halls and b ball rooms Brok 1 will hear Keepsakes I en Hearts Deep Deep In Someone's I Heart and The The Love Loie Song Sons of ot Today To- To Today To Today day The last lut named amed has an In- In InI insidious In Insidious I rh rhythm th that t will viII make 11 probably the most danced to d fox tox- foxtrot foxtrot I trot of the sc season son What will prose O to be the most I popular phonograph pl piece e ot of the show will be bo It will not be played placed much b hi small or newly newl I ors organized dance orchestras Too great a a a precision ts is nee needed nee ed to ru make ke I It effective In hat respect It Is much like Ilka the hit hitI I from Wild Flower Flo which re- re remains remains re remains mains the most popular music of last season When was first recorded enough h records could not be made to meet tie the de- de demand demand de demand mand yet ct et It has been little heard In dance halls and ball rooms be- be becaUse because be because cause ot of Its difficult tempo FEWER LEGS SHOWN SHOW Much attention bas haa been paId ere to the music of The The Magic IRing Ring The point this writer i Is trying to stress la Js that music h has been pretty generally neglected ot of recent years while bile attention In so- so called so-called called musical plays has been dl- dl directed di directed to bare knees and thighs In former days stars stars ot of the stage were graduated from the ranks of the chorus In the tha past fert fe pears the only quality demanded ot of a chorus girl il has haa been a pair ot of shapely limbs and an unlimited willingness wt to to show Appeal to nD any but the sensuous s side tlde of ot an audience has been neglected Now r it you iou ou please the t two 0 most popular musical plays plas pla s In town are I Poppy Poppi and The Magic RIng both ot of o which treat legs only as the of ot dancing MORE PLUMP The poly roly-poly Mitzi Is the star etar ot of oThe The Magic Ring She is a 11 hying contradiction ot of th old fallacy that thata thata a a person must be thin to dance wen well Mitzi appears fully 20 pounds heavier than when I last lut saw her herand herand herand and at least that much lighter on her feet teet while dancing Which reminds me ma that the best I ever tried to encircle with m my arm was aas and carried pounds ot of flesh on a four toot foot five fr frame me ACTOR WRITES HIT Tarnish a new play of ot the week sizes up as one of o the out out- outstanding outstanding out outstanding standing hits of ot the season The Theauthor Theauthor Theauthor author could not respond when the night night first audience called for tor him The author happened to be Gilbert Emery and at th that t time he was waa helping Helen Gahagan untangle her affairs In Chains which Is playing pla only a few ew doors away ay on Fort Forty street And therewith Is exploded an- an another another an another other old that fallacy fallacy that an actor can cannot cannot cannot not be a successful play playwright right be- be because because be because cause ho can look looh at a play only from one players player's Tar nish promises to live long and prosperously |