Word: florenz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Visiting critics, dramatic and sporting, acted as though they had seen the Moscow Art Theatre. Columns of frenzied adjectives flashed eastward. For two weeks the adjectives knocked around the managers' offices. Suddenly they penetrated three heads at once. Almost simultaneously Florenz Ziegfeld, Lee Shubert and Irving Berlin started burning the Western wires with gold-leaf offers for Patricia's pilgrimage to Broadway...
Died. Brigadier General Florenz Ziegfeld, 82, U. S. A., retired, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, founder and President Emeritus of the Chicago Musical College, father of Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., theatrical producer, in Chicago. Dr. Ziegfeld, as a young music student, knew Wagner, Liszt, Rubenstein. Born in Germany, he came to the United States just before the Civil War, in which he served as Lieutenant Colonel of an Illinois regiment...
That this is due to plain laziness and lack of ability and is not out of consideratioin for the demands of the somewhat mythical T.B.M. is demonstrated by the work of Florenz Ziegfeld and John Murray Anderson. The genius of these two gentlemen is responsible for raising the general level of musical revues in America far above that of any other country. They refused to subscribe to the trade dictum that people like the old jokes best, or that the old tunes can be polished up to look like new, or that stage sets designed by a scenic factory...
...electing a greatest woman of all time, however, the people usually seek the most beautiful woman in America. Recently the papers were filled with pictures of rural belles from Utah, Timbuctoo, and Chicago; then all these lovely damsels convened at Atlantic City, where that epicure of feminine beauty, Mr. Florenz Ziegfeld selected from them Miss America,--now on her way to Hollywood...
According to A. L. Erlanger, William A. Brady, Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., and other prominent theatrical managers, a severe financial slump has arrived in the business of shows that go on the road. Conditions in New England are said to be especially bad, due chiefly to the closing of many factories and a streak of over-production in plays...