Show I IBARE BARE I LEGS FR SECOND TH TO iu Pi CLEVER liNES IN NEVI MUSICAL SHOWS SHOPS Mere Exhibitions of Nakedness Manager Assures Writer riter Do Not Satisfy Tired Business Man and Usual Audiences Now B D L J J COlITO I Special of or TIle The Copyright 1023 1013 NEW Sept when 22 2 hen When It comes to adjectives tor for the describIng describing ing of at the new nC big biS musical shows suen urn w n simply ain aln t t Lan e has tas not vet tt gone that far Car and the show sho his has But Dut the new Idea In the tall fall are are- areson sea season I- I Ison son crop of ot theatricals of or the lighter light light- lighter lighter er sort Is that of ot putting the em- em emphasis em emphasis Ihas on the spoken polen rather than on the hun human lone lines Imes 8 Cleverness Cle erne Is the keynote good Ie note note-gool good acting which I ithe meana enter entertainment i I Is the main theme Scantiness of cos COB costume costume tum tume Is 19 so secondary that to In hear J many managers tell it the ha hate hae e cal eeb gl glen giten en cloth clothes q a thought I There are plenty of ot human line lines to the sQuare Inch In the Music Lox Dox review which had Its premiere tonight the tho Green Greenwich Ich tal- tal tallie follies fol follies lie lies which had lad its first exposure so to speak on Thursday nl night ht and the new follies which u are still till incubating But tho dif dlf- dif f Cl r ronco Is that l these shows will v depend l tor for their chief success not so 0 much on the knees as o on the wheeze J I MS lS Scour ORr The producer III tell you vou au that they al always allIs a s depend more on the th chic of the lines tines than on the lInes of the chick You need ned not belle 0 em m s s a matter of or fact tact they a acid addin ld In the net nest breath that more marc and the big g idea of at the more 1923 mu- mu mu musical musical show I li is to put across Nen eten b better turned epigrams than ankles In short the thA three great shows which represent the tho froth Croth or of o fan fan- fantastic fantastic fan fantastic r reductions have turned the word clever Inside out in an at- at attempt at tempt to wring all tho the juice tram from It There hive ve been heen clever er musical shows hows before The difference today I Is that today cleverness comes first Bare Baro legs legs to to put It lire are oro decided se second ond I ondI This Is whit what the tho producer of or ono one of o these new shows actually 1 1 I Seated in his own office the tho cory cory- cory pl pl-es pl in crepe dechine floating COry I around In the offing he nl said s It Tho The tired business man wants ItI i I the Iho same kind of at o show anyone else I e wants declared the producer He wants ants something cle I Clever er lInes clever ideas brains br rather lathe than brawn No business man n tired I Is going to be en- en entertained entertained en entertained very cry long by a mere exhibition ex- ex ex exhibition ot of nakedness e h 1 niLLS Th The producer looked unutterably se severe ere a as he pronounced this new new- newsy ne new newly ly sy discovered tact fact haro bare haro legs lee wont won't get any show how by You know why producers base e port pory ballets with bare barn leg legs To public Savo Lavo laundry bills The pub pub- pub lic ifs does not really like Ilke bareness NO show ever stood or tell fell on a stocking Heros s 's the proof In those to towns tons ns where here the censors made the chorus put on stockings th the show was just jut n as much ot or a success Put into stockings a show allow makes ju just t as much money as aa before IlI- IlI allowing al allowing 10 lowing Ing for tor the tetra extra laundry bills You can t put over a tI poor show bt t taking off oft clothes You cant can't hurt hurl closer clever one ono by b- keeping em 1 on Dat c logs legs are aro merely Incidentals HI fi I t U S As Aa tS for tor the trend which v clever clever- ness flees nes takes just jutt now the Music Bo Doc revue has lIas a scene beneath the ocean cean where harl sharks chance swim and mer maids mald shake k ahl a wicked its tin fin Its so r lIstic I that you yoa got seasick Again ther there Is ts an em eminently clever ver fir fir- ar ran ranging of or lights EO co 0 that a modern with Ith modern dan dancers erA turns In a t tInkling Inkling ot an eY eye to toan an old ballroom with ol old fashIoned waives And nd It may b be bf noted In tn passin passing that with ill all II this tills crescendo s el erne the laundry laun bills for tor the shows wont won't be appreciably bigger I they were ere last IRIt veal teat eal |