opened on Broadway at the Globe Theatre on Christmas Day, 1915, and ran for 105 performances.
[1][2] Gaby, a young chorine, is determined to get the leading part in her current musical after the star, Mary Singer, was whisked away to Honolulu by her suitor, Gideon Gay, but Gaby is rejected by the show's creative team.
She meets agent Abel Conner who agrees to help her, and they decide to trail the creative team to Honolulu where they are searching for a new star.
Green Book Magazine, January, 1916: Sherlock Holmes couldn't find a plot in "Stop!
To me, with the weakness already confessed, the piece suffers from general absence of destination, and from a considerable superfluity of articulate chorus girls.
Foremost among the former are Harry Fox, who never appeared to better advantage, and a very interesting dance team, known to the varieties as Doyle & Dixon.
Then there are Tempest & Sunshine; Blossom Seeley; Joseph Santley, also at his best; Helen Barnes, giving promise in her first part; and Justine Johnstone, who represents the farina-pudding school of art.
Here, however, she does two rather remarkable dances—one with Mr. Santley and one with Harry Pilcer —and wears some astounding costumes, including a hat that looks as though its plumage had been lifted from a pink hearse.
The Berlin music shows the effect of overproduction, lacking freshness and inspiration, but this doesn't keep successive audiences from succumbing to the syncopation.
A Vogue cover opens and closes to show six beautiful girls in six beautiful gowns; there is a cleverly contrived policeman's dance, programmed "The Law Must Be Obeyed;" and to take the place of the rag-time grand opera in "Watch Your Step," there is a rag-time melodrama.