Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 4, 1929

Maurice Chevalier. This keen, young, handsome French song-singer has long been a good reason for a trip to Paris. Now he has come to the U. S. Primarily he came to make motion pictures but, while the operator is changing the reels, Mr. Ziegfeld has captured him for that Midnight Frolic which Mr. Ziegfeld insists is "atop" the New Amsterdam Theatre. Best songs: about Valentine, and M. et Mme. Elephant.

The U. S. has nothing of its own quite like Chevalier. He effervesces songs and, with fleeting...

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