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...Manhattan last week Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. spun around in his chair and seized a telephone. In Los Angeles, Fred Stone soon heard his telephone bell ring. Mr. Ziegfeld wanted Dorothy, golden-haired dancing daughter of Mr. Stone, to proceed immediately to Manhattan to play the lead in Show Girl. Where was Dorothy? On Will Rogers' ranch outside Hollywood, said her father. "Call her," snapped Ziegfeld. Fred Stone said that Will Rogers had no telephone in his breezy retreat. "Fly to her," pleaded Mr. Ziegfeld. Fred Stone said that he had risked no flying since his nearly fatal air accident last...
Show Girl. Dixie Dugan lived in dingiest Brooklyn. Light of foot and heart, she obtained an interview with the great Producer Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. by telling him she bore a message from his wife. It was not long before Dixie danced in the Follies. She was loved by a greeting card salesman who quoted his sentiments from his wares. She was desired by a swart tangoist. There was a penthousebroken aristocrat who tried to seduce her. Ultimately she was won by Jimmy Doyle, newsgatherer and Follies librettist...
With two big girl-shows opening in Manhattan last week (see col. 1) moralists hurried as usual to see them, to make sure they were not indecent. Historians reflected. Twenty years ago Producer Florenz Ziegfeld presented Miss Innocence, with the late Anna Held (milk baths). Of it Theatre Magazine said: ". . . Bare legs and suggestive humor . . . sheath gowns [padlocked] to nothing at all." Also in 1909, famed Composer Richard Strauss's Selome was sung and danced by Mary Garden. Spurred by this event, Publisher Condé Nast's newly-acquired feminine smartchart Vogue editorialized...
...Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. gave his opinion last week of bathing beauty contests. It was: "No self-respecting girl wants to be paraded before a multitude and dished up before the public gaze." Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. last week advertised his new girl-show Show Girl. He said: "150 GLORIFIED GIRLS IN THE FLESH AND BLOOD...
...chill that fell over the boxing world when Promoter Rickard lay, with cheeks rouged and his best suit on, in a glass-covered box at Madison Square Garden, did begin to pass last week when showgirls from Florenz Ziegfeld's Whoopee turned out to sell tickets for a fight on June 27 in the Yankee Stadium. Although ostensibly to benefit New York poor children by swelling the Milk Fund, and although the world's championship will not be at issue, this fight loomed far more significantly than the inconclusive Dempsey-promoted by-play at Miami last winter between...