Word: florenz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gloomy mourned the past and doubted the future of show business. Yet each time, show business continued brighter, gayer, more interesting than before. Each phase of its irrepressible evolution reappeared in the next: the theater had more than its share of Barnum, the movies committed more Follies than Florenz Ziegfeld, and TV is in effect bringing vaudeville back to life. Today, show business is bigger, richer, more fascinating than ever. To report the world of show business is the aim of a new section TIME launches this week...
...drama editor of the Times; Harold Ross, editor of the American Legion Weekly, was soon to embark on his New Yorker venture; and Dorothy Parker was living, as usual, on the edge of disaster-she had just lost her drama critic's job at Vanity Fair* (at Showman Florenz Ziegfeld's request because Dottie had roasted Mrs. Ziegfeld, alias Billie Burke...
...What Florenz Ziegfeld brought to Broadway and Tabasco sauce to the raw oyster, the Rev. William H. Alexander brought to religion in Oklahoma City. He put zing into churchgoing. A strapping, handsome redhead with a rousing voice and a glad hand, the Rev. Bill installed pool tables, bowling alleys and card games for the kids. He let himself be chucked into the lake summers at the First Christian Church men's outing, and he wrestled all comers on the grass. He was not above presiding at public rallies in an old turtleneck sweater...