Word: florenz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Louie the 14th. Leon Errol's legs straddle this musical comedy like those of the Colossus at Rhodes. Florenz Ziegfeld's latest musical pageant and village carnival has been produced on a scale of towering magnificence. It outshines a Mardi Gras festival and the Follies combined. But unless the book had Mr. Errol's legs to uphold it, it could hardly stand on its own feet...
...seller with an English accent. She is gracious, with a cool, reassuring voice, nimble limbs, modish good looks. The diligent Sigmund Romberg has drained off another resonant score to match his The Student Prince (TiME, Dec. 15). There is a military chorus to boom close harmony and rumble rifles. Florenz Ziegfeld has window-dressed the scenes far above the usual art-calendar level. The book has been only partially translated from the lumbering German. It would lose momentum but for Errol's hind legs...
Unfortunately, this illusion is shattered. The patron saints of Boston dramatic culture, apparently, are no longer Ibsen, Galsworthy and Shaw, but George M. Cohen, Irving Berlin, and Florenz Ziegfeld...
Life is getting harder for the chorus girl. Last week Florenz Ziegfeld issued a general order (by telegraph, as is his custom) to omit Imogene Wilson from further performances of his current Follies. And all because she got herself in the newspapers for an alleged punch in the eye at the hand of Frank Tinney, piebald comedian...
...greedy newspapers, swollen with the story, alarmed the finical Florenz. He wired his press agent to keep Imogene out of the newspapers...