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...York. She earned $1,500 a week, kept a Rolls-Royce for herself and a "nice Packard" for her mother. She lived in a whirl of furs, maids and flowers, and married Follies Producer Florenz Ziegfeld. Last week in Collier's, Billie reminisced about the great Flo and the gaudy...
...daughter Patty was six, Ziegfeld bought her a 250-lb. elephant (he had already stocked their Hastings-on-Hudson estate with two lion cubs, two bears, six ponies, a herd of deer and several cockatoos). This exotic domesticity was frequently punctuated by Mrs. Ziegfeld's magnificent tantrums, because Flo could not shake the habit of falling in love with beautiful women...
...wrote Billie, "destined to be jealous of the entire Follies chorus and star list for the rest of my married life. Once when Flo came in at 5 a.m., after seeing Olive Thomas I suppose, I crept downstairs to find him raiding the icebox. Nearby was an enormous silver soup tureen and ladle. I seized the ladle and belabored him about the head and shoulders...
...Flo merely laughed and carried me upstairs in his arms." On other occasions, Billie screamed, threw china, tore draperies off windows. During these spells, Ziegfeld regarded her quietly and smoked long cigars. "The trouble with you, Billie," he once said, "is that when you accuse me, you always pick the wrong girl...
...last week, wrote Columnist Billy Rose, "a daffy story popped up on my desk" (the kidney-shaped one in the office Flo Ziegfeld used to use). It seemed, wrote Rose, that somebody's spinster Aunt Helen had died, and when the minister drew back the casket lid at the funeral, what should be inside but the uniformed corpse of a two-star general? The embarrassed undertaker said they might as well go ahead with the service. Aunt Helen had apparently been buried in Arlington Cemetery that morning, and only an act of Congress could...