Word: billye
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Ziegfeld Follies (presented by Mrs. Florenz ["Billie Burke"] Ziegfeld; staged by Bobby Connolly and John Murray Anderson; settings by Watson Barratt and Albert R. Johnson; songs by Billy Rose, Vernon Duke, Samuel Pokrass and Dana Suesse). Florenz Ziegfeld spent only $13,000 on his first Follies in 1907. Critic Percy...
Comedy is the keynote of the 1934 Follies. As a New York Mayor in the reviewing stand, Willie Howard notes the absence of photographers ("Is Eleanor Roosevelt in town?"), the Republican delegation ("Where is he?"), the marching bankers with "angina Pecora." But the show belongs mostly to Miss Brice. Older...
*In front of which is sung "The Last Round-Up," written two years ago by Billy Hill and sold last summer to the Follies. The song beat the Follies to Broadway and popularity by months (TIME, Oct. 23).
In your issue of Oct. 23, p. 45, under Music and an account of Mr. Billy Hill's song entitled "The Last Round-Up," I was interested in the footnote stating that the word "dogie" means a yearling and giving its pronunciation. The pronunciation is correct but you are...
Big, shambling Billy Hill is a bit befogged by the song's raging success. Most satisfying to him is the fact that in the Southwest honest-injun cowboys, who rarely sing cowboy songs nowadays, are singing "The Last Round-Up" and singing it as if it belonged to them...