Word: flo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Broadway knew "Flo" Ziegfeld for his temperament, his lavishness, his lack of humor, his publicity-madness. Broadway liked him nonetheless. Since the 1890's his short figure, his broad, pink face, thick nose and sharp eyes had been familiar to theatregoers. But he never let the public forget that his father had founded the Chicago Musical College, that his second job ?his first was with Buffalo Bill's show? was that of manager of the college. In 1892 he went to Europe to get orchestras for the Chicago World's Fair. On their failing, he went to New York...
Late for the opening of Flo Ziegfeld's revival of Show Boat, Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch was making for his seat when the hanger-loop on his overcoat snagged on the button of the usher's uniform. Usher and Financier struggled for a long moment in the darkness. Finally the usher ripped the button...
...mane like "Sunrise." But instead, the vastly commonplace Miss Gaynor usurps these roles, and Miss Twelvetrees is forced to play gangsters" molls and cast-off courtesans. It is not her fault that she has had to grimace in the grand manner or shrill thinly in melodrama. In "Panama Flo", she deals more skillfully than before with such material yet it is evident that here face was made for gauze and soft lighting, and her voice for more idyllic liners...