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...Eddie's younger brother, Roy. In 1937, the Follies were as crude as a road company of East Lynne. Next year the little St. Paul troupe was more professional. Last year they were still better. This year their show was as polished as any Follies the late Florenz Ziegfeld ever produced...
Engaged. Patricia Ziegfeld, 22, only daughter of Cinemactress Billie Burke and the late Florenz Ziegfeld; to William Stephenson,* 26, dance instructor; in Hollywood...
Died. Henri Grechen, 73, bearded old Manhattan barber who cut the hair of Mark Twain, Florenz Ziegfeld, the elder J. P. Morgan, Marshal Joffre, claimed credit for inventing the "bob"; after long illness; in Hawthorne...
...carat Hope Diamond and six diamond bracelets, Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean (Father Struck It Rich) revived her celebrated Washington New Year's Eve Party in honor of her son. John Randolph ("Jock") McLean, who will be 21 next month. Son Jock, his guest Patricia Ziegfeld. the late Florenz Ziegfeld's daughter, and 1.000 other merrymakers danced around to two bands in two ballrooms, drank 120 gal. of champagne. 55 gal. of Scotch whiskey...
...Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. opens his movie career barking for Sandow at Chicago's World's Fair in 1883, and dies broke on Broadway amid souvenirs of his, the finest shows of the era. His life crosses Little Egypt, Klaw and Erlanger, Stanford White, Harry K. Thaw, Lillian Russell, and started on their way such stars as Fannie Brice, Anna Held, Jerome Kern, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers, Billie Burke, Harriet Hoctor, Ray Bolger, and the glorified American girl. Revolutionizing the New York stage he began by copying foreign revues and built successively his follies, his shows on the roof garden...