Word: florenz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have rushed a host of accomplished specialists with important contributions. Marc Connelly, playwright & seer, provides the general forecast for the approaching year; Critic Nathan suggests a breath-taking change in post-Volstead nomenclature; Banker Streeter* supplies a startling opinion of what 1928 will do for Big Business; Florenz Ziegfeld dissertates on his favorite topic; poems flow from many a pen of unquestioned talent; and, to choose from a multitude of other writings what may be most significant, famed "Texas" Guinan sets down on paper an intense, concise, illuminating treatise on inebriety in its various manifestations. Despite the presence of some...
...goes through the other months with the following among others, contributing their specialities--poems, wit, essays, drawings, criticism: John Macy, Marc Connelly, Dorothy Parker, George Jean Nathan, Phillips Russell, A.H. Woods, Ida M. Tarbell, Sidney S. Lenz, Jane Cowl, H.L. Mencken, and Florenz Ziegfeld...
Married. Theodore De Long Buhl, heir to $24,000,000 nephew of Florenz Ziegfeld and son of Mrs. Willis Buhl of Detroit; to Anastasia Reilly, onetime (1926) Ziegfeld Follies girl; in Manhattan. Present were Mr. & Mrs. Florenz Ziegfeld (Billie Burke) & others...
...most recent Scandals, George White introduced the now virtually incessant Black Bottom. In Manhattan Mary, he supplies a prospective successor-the Five Step. Mr. White himself momentarily joins the cast to exhibit this gyration, recalling days when he was an humble hoofer** for his now greatest rival, Florenz Ziegfeld. This innovation is second only, in importance, to the appearance in the pit of Mr. Wynn leading the orchestra, in which process his back begins to itch-something that well trained conductors' backs never do. But Mr. Wynn's does, and he scratches...
Died. W. K. Ziegfeld, 54, brother of famed Florenz Ziegfeld, Follies producer; in Baltimore; after a lingering illness...