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...Point, N. Y., came a train of which one unit was the "Roamer," private car of Jacob Leonard Replogle, New York Steelman. Mr. and Mrs. Replogle were aboard and so were Dr. Jerome Wagner of Manhattan, a brother of U S. Senator Robert Wagner of New York, and Florenz Ziegfeld, famed girl-glorifier, producer of the perennial Follies. They had been visiting at the Wagner camp near Quebec...
...Groucho (chattering), Chico (wop) and Zeppo in Animal Crackers. Arthur Hammerstein plans a "musicalization" of Alice in Wonderland. George C. Tyler will produce Macbeth with Margaret Anglin, Lyn Harding and settings by Gordon Craig. Anne Nichols threatens with Abie's Children and a musical version of Just Married. Florenz Ziegfeld has enticed Ina Claire back into the musical comedy from which she started. Alexander Moissi, late of Reinhardt's troupe, will appear, under the joint management of Edgar Selwyn and Morris Gest, in The Living Corpse...
...White (Scandals), who last week declared that he was quitting the stage for sound-pictures. So the genre of the proposed Berlin work is obvious, quite like the music of The Cocoanuts, which he composed for the four Marx brothers and the Follies of 1927, which he made for Florenz Ziegfeld. How much Composer Berlin will get for this work neither he nor President Joseph M. Schenck of United Artists last week would...
SHOW GIRL-J. P. McEvoy-Simon & Schuster ($2). Apropos of Show Girl, Florenz Ziegfeld has written (or, at least, signed) his first book review; and in the distinguished Saturday Review of Literature at that. Likening the lives of showfolk to "April days blended of sun and showers," Mr. Ziegfeld brings Author McEvoy to task for letting his version of Broadway make such unadulterated whoopee. However, reviewer praises author as "a lusty fellow" who "writes with gusto" of Dixie Dugan "the hottest little wench that ever shook a scanty at a tired business man." Other characters are Dixie's devoted...
Patricia Ziegfeld, daughter of famed Florenz Ziegfeld, profited last week by one of her father's excursions into the limelight. Being sued for $100,000 by Elizabeth Hines, who thought she deserved the position of leading lady in Show Boat, Mr. Ziegfeld promised his daughter a roadster if he won the case. An arbitration board awarded Elizabeth Hines $12,000 and Ziggy, counting this at least a Pyrrhic victory, bought his little girl the car that he had posted. But, little Patricia Ziegfeld will be unable to drive her roadster because she is only eleven...