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...change of seats, a change of viewpoint. It was the end of an era. Long, lean Songwriter Gene Buck had been since 1925 chieftain of ASCAP, the clangorous music-writing clan that embraces everything from Tin Pan Alley to Rachmaninoff. A friend of Victor Herbert, for 20 years Florenz Ziegfeld's right-hand man, writer of 500 lyrics (Hello, Frisco!, Tulip Time), Buck served ASCAP from 1925 to 1929 without pay. Later he drew a $50,000-a-year salary, which he voluntarily cut to $35,000 a year ago, after ASCAP entered its losing music war with...
Ziegfeld Girl (Metro -Goldwyn-Mayer) is a prodigally star-crammed, $2,000,000 exposition of how the late Florenz Ziegfeld's leggy ladies won their Zs. It is also the final glorification of Lana (The Ramparts We Watch) Turner. Henceforth the eupeptic starlet is scheduled to shroud her most publicized charms in the toga of a dramatic actress...
Boys and Girls Together (Music by Sammy Fain, lyrics by Jack Yellen & Irving Kahal; produced by Ed Wynn). The late great Florenz Ziegfeld was not overly popular with comics. He was firm in the belief that funnymen should remain on the stage only long enough to give his girls a chance to change their clothes. In Boys and Girls Together, Ed Wynn reverses the master's dictum. From the moment he steps out of an old trunk in Act I to announce that all the actors come from show boats and hence his "cast was bred upon the waters...
Died. William Anthony McGuire, 53, prolific, publicity-shy Broadway playwright (Six Cylinder Love, Twelve Miles Out), scriptwriter for the late Florenz Ziegfeld (Rosalie, Smiles, Whoopee), cinemauthor (The Great Ziegfeld, Lillian Russell, many an Eddie Cantor musicomedy) ; of a stroke; in Beverly Hills...
Born. To Comedienne Billie Burke and the late Florenz Ziegfeld: their first grandchild, a girl; in Hollywood. Weight: 7 Ibs. Name: Florenz Ziegfeld Stephenson...