Word: florenz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mimes, musicians, lords and ladies of the court, and some times even the reigning monarch himself. Jonson wrote some two dozen such verse spectacles, but his sprightly dialogues and ballads were all too often lost amid the splendor of costumes, sets and elaborate stage effects dreamed up by the Florenz Ziegfeld of the Stuart court, Inigo Jones...
...Florenz Ziegfeld. He entertained like an emperor, and required guests and family alike to rise when he entered the room. He was a dropper of names and a picker of brains whom a friend once proposed for the egomania championship of the world. Somewhat muffled in this irritatingly bland and overextended biography by The New Yorker's E. J. Kahn Jr. (The Big Drink; A Reporter Here and There], the late Herbert Bayard Swope nevertheless emerges as a personality of extravagant proportions...
...boys from Syracuse who founded Broadway's theatrical empire; of a stroke; in his Manhattan penthouse atop Sardi's 44th Street restaurant. In the partnership, Older Brother Sam was the producer and Middle Brother Lee the businessman; "J.J." touched both sides of the business, playing backer to Florenz Ziegfeld, producing more than 500 shows, and sending Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, Marilyn Miller and Bert Lahr on their way to stardom. Until 1956, when the U.S. Government settled an antitrust suit, the Shuberts controlled half of all U.S. legitimate theaters; the business (24 theaters in Manhattan and four other...
...Pont Show of the Week (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A TV biography of Broadway's Florenz Ziegfeld, with Joan Crawford narrating...
...town of Sterling, Colo, by consenting to appear at a high school dance; she sued Columbia Pictures for a million dollars, claiming that the movie Gilda was an invasion of her privacy (she settled out of court). There were also a couple of comeback attempts. In 1951 in Milwaukee, Florenz Ziegfeld's "Golden Girl" was packing them in once more; she even announced that she was getting gifts from anonymous gentlemen admirers. But now Gilda was somewhat more skeptical than she had been in the old high times. "I didn't know whether to accept the gifts...