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Ziegfeld Follies of 1946. Practically everything is here-notably Fred Astaire -even Flo Ziegfeld, who starts it off from Heaven (TIME, March...
Revolving Doors. Elizabeth Arden is a dreamed-up name. She was born-in the little Ontario village of Woodbridge-with the far more implausible name of Florence Nightingale Graham.* Her father was a huckster whose eccentricity was to use only broken-down thoroughbreds to pull his wagon. Flo tried out as a dentist's assistant and a student nurse in Toronto before traveling to New York in 1906. It was a time when a woman's beauty equipment consisted chiefly of glycerin and rose water; for a woman to "paint" was almost as outrageous...
...hangar-sized Opera House, jammed from gates to gods, the customers cheered & cheered, the curtain rose & fell, the cast bowed & bowed. It was a triply ripping occasion: 1) the opening of Britain's first big postwar musical, Big Ben; 2) the 125th production by Britain's Flo Ziegfeld, aging (73), arthritic Charles Blake Cochran; 3) a show written by a Member of Parliament-bung-nosed Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, famed as a humorous writer ("A.P.H.") and as a pillar...
Ziegfeld Follies of 1946. Flo Ziegfeld's in Heaven and all's right with vaudeville, especially Fred Astaire (TIME. March...