THE MARCUS SHOW

Evening Star, Issue 22688, 30 June 1937, Page 17

THE MARCUS SHOW

■ BROADWAY VANITIES I The second programme presented by this large company of artists proved to be as spectacular as that witnessed last week, and from the moment that the white drop curtain, very heavily fringed' and embroidered in silver, was raised, scene followed scene in one long succession of gorgeous splendour, from the first, in which the whole company seemed a moving mass of coronation blue and red, to the most unusual finale of the Orange Grove. In contrast to the more riotous scenes of colour, Sofia Alvarez created a

To produce and keep in order the costumes for such a display is a task of no mean proportions, and behind scenes the designing and sewing of costumes are going on all the time. The company carries many of its own seamstresses as well ns its designers, and in each town many more arc engaged to work each day. As soon as a. set becomes the least tashed it is discarded and a different one introduced. A visit to the wardrobe gives just some little idea of the work involved in this one department alone.