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Show SHOW GLORIFIES AMERICAN GIRL j Ziegfeld Certainly Does Expose Her, Drawls Will Rogers : NEW rORK. 'The sixteenth edl tion of the Ziepfeld Follies. jus I opened at the Now Amsterdam thi-a j Ire here, Is billed as "n national instl . tiitlon glortflng the American girl. "1 dun't know whether Mr. Zieg ( I'M glorifies the American girl i drawled win Rogers wh n he ap j pea red with his ladat on the openln : nljjht, "but he certainly doea expos J her." The 1 922 Follies, however, do more. , Illnc Lardner. Will ROgers, Victor Herbert; Michel Fokjne, Joseph Ur- ban and others have collaborated to "SCt a new standard. The result (s that, aside from the feminine charm, which Is t ii - equal to the Ziegfeld standard the &'' odltiOn surpasses all previous Follies in beauty of staging and In general effecc The total Impression of the open-J open-J ing night was t hat the four-hour j show was the best of Its Kind ever seen on Broadway. More than that, It represented America's greatest co:i-, co:i-, tribuiion to theatrical entertainment. The glorious American girl was Ithere in plehtj the typical Ziegfeld attraction, benmifn! with tii. .iinx (charm of youth and dLsplaled with al-I al-I luring grace and crisp freshness. There was Mary Raton probably I the most famous of the 1922 Follies beauties; Anastasia Rielly and Pran-jces Pran-jces Heveaux typical Ziegfeld selections. selec-tions. Gilda Gray and Evel n lw. jhrought In to f'll the gap In tht-dancing tht-dancing program left by the absence, J o Florence O'DeniShawn. There were three outstanding features fea-tures the satirical wit of Ring Iard-ner Iard-ner and win Rogers; the two ballet Scenes; "Frollrking Gods" and Lace Land1 and the dancing. I ' Frolicking Gods" and "Ijaco iLand" were the best acts of their kin.1 ever produced in America ;The first. a Michel Fokinc ballet, was sheer beauty without the funereal awe and seriousness of an art musouni, i Venus do Mllo with a twinkle of h i eye, gods an dnTnphs after a blood transfusion. "Lace Iand" was another ballet, this, time In an 1'rban set of remaik-jable remaik-jable srJendor. I ' The Bull Pen" was a great bit of native American humor. Keen, bri!-iliant, bri!-iliant, satirical. If there was any weakness in the , IshoWi it was In the humor of the I lines, OO 1 |