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...miles apart. When Fort Worth heard that Dallas was to be the centre of Texas Centennial, her pride was pinched. Amon Carter and friends had got only a quarter of a million out of the Federal grab bag, but they determined to outdo Dallas. They sent for Fanny Brice's husband, little Billy Rose, most grandiloquent of U. S. showmen, the author of Barney Google. Presented to him was a contract reputedly for $1,000 a day for 100 days. Promptly Fort Worth's "Frontier Centennial" was planned...
John M. Callaway, Alfred H. Corbett, Perry James Culver, Thomas J. Darcey, Jr., Emile Dubiel, Leo A. Ecker, William B. Emmons, Jr., James A. Field, George S. Ford, James A. Ford, Bennett Frankel, Brice A. Frey, Jr., James J. Fuld, Colmery Gibson, Francis A. Goodhue, Jr., Hamilton Hadden, Jr., James B. Hallett, Robert C. Holcombe, David L. Howe, Thomas B. Husband...
...includes the most ornate sets of its kind ever built. It was written by William Anthony McGuire, author of five shows for Ziegfeld, and directed with monumental opulence by Robert Z. Leonard. In addition to three cinema stars, its cast includes three genuine Ziegfeld celebrities (Fanny Brice, Harriet Hoctor, Ray Bolger) and accurate counterfeits of two others: Buddy Doyle as Eddie Cantor and A. A. Trimble as the late Will Rogers. Trimble is a Cleveland map salesman who, often mistaken for Rogers, was last sum mer discovered by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer scouts. The picture will be shown...
With Fannie Brice, on the other hand, there is practically never cause for com plaint. Her tidbit in this show is her impersonation of a solemn Jewish dancer interpreting "Rewolt" and "de Messes." Plump, ingratiating Comedian Bob Hope (Roberta) is given an amusing song to sing hopelessly to comely Eve Arden (Parade). Vernon Duke wrote the tune; Ira Gershwin the lyric...
...Later Rose's instinct for what pleases the masses made him one of the most successful song writers of the times, turning out the words for such tunes as Barney Google, You've, Got to See Mama Every Night, Without a Song. After he became Comedienne Fanny Brice's third husband in 1929, he was spurred on to greater feats to keep his personality independent of his wife's fame. He produced a razzle-dazzle revue called Crazy Quilt, toured the country with it and, under the pressure of terrific ballyhoo, made himself a quarter...