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...Author. Bernard Sobel is at present press agent for Showman Florenz Ziegfeld. He once held the same position for lean Earl Carroll and gained a good deal of his knowledge of Burlesque in the employ of the Brothers Minsky (Abraham, Billy, Herbert & Morton), New York's best known Burlesque impresarios. He was once, his publishers insist, an instructor in English at Purdue University. In the present thick quarto he has assembled a number of photographs of oldtime Burlesque Queens and comedians, larded them with reminiscences of the days when hefty May Howard would not hire any girl who weighed...
...Florenz Ziegfeld was named vice president and art director of Golding Fabrics Corp. President of the company is Edwin I. Golding, oldtime silkman, onetime president of Stehli Fabrics Corp. Treasurer is Herbert Bleyer, past president of Doucet et Cie. In the trade Silkman Golding is known as a "superior salesman." The new company will have for its slogan: "Glorifying the American Girl." It will stress designs for a special type of woman. If the woman thinks she looks like a member of the Ziegfeld chorus she will easily find her dress, for each label will give the name...
Earl Carroll's Vanities are rococo. Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies are smart. And yet, in spite of his overpowering, unwholesome gaudiness. Earl Carroll is probably a better showman than Florenz Ziegfeld. When he puts on his annual durbar there is a spontaneity to its promotion which Producer Ziegfeld strives painfully to attain. One night last week a crowd choked Manhattan's Seventh Avenue to witness the most recent, most important mile stone in Producer Carroll's theatrical career. He was presenting the ninth annual Vanities in the newest, largest U. S. playhouse...
...Florenz Ziegfeld once called Sally Eilers the most beautiful brunette in Hollywood. She had her real wedding dress copied for her role in Bad Girl; like the girl in the picture, she lived in Manhattan until, after being in the Follies, she became a cinemactress. She likes giving dinner parties, driving the three airplanes which belong to her husband, Cowboy-Actor Hoot Gibson. Like James Dunn, who used to be a sales man of portable lunch wagons, played a small part in Sweet Adeline, and has a clause in his contract saying he must weigh less than...
Sirs: I have read with interest in your issue of June 22, 1931, an article deploring the fact that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad had no rail connection with New York City, and for that reason it was intimated it could not carry Mr. Florenz Ziegfeld's 70 "glorified" girls to Pittsburgh to have a try out in that city before the Follies opened their show in New York. It is perfectly proper and within Mr. Ziegfeld's rights for him to use any means of transportation for his company he may select. However, I would like...