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Died. Nathan Burkan, 56, Rumanian-born expert on copyright and contract law; of acute indigestion; in Great Neck, L. I. Among his clients were Composer Victor Herbert, the late Florenz Ziegfeld, Al Jolson, Gary Cooper, Constance Bennett, Ina Claire, Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt...
...Great Ziegfeld (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). According to the curious credo of the U. S. theatre, the late Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. was an amalgamation of P. T. Barnum, Lucullus and St. Francis of Assisi. combining the advantageous features of all three, while the musical shows he produced were prodigies of good taste, imagination and romantic ingenuity. The Great Ziegfeld perpetuates this questionable legend with characteristic Hollywood insistence...
History has been in the making at University Hall for the past few days ever since John Simoneau, New Hampshire soft drink tycoon whose personality may be described as a combination of Florenz Ziegfeld, Jacob Ruppert, Jack Benny, Paul Harris, and Tex Rickard, has been making his presence felt in no uncertain manner...
...Florenz Ziegfeld did some first-rate glorifying in his long and spectacular career as producer of musical extravaganzas but never did he attain the dizzy height of opulent glorification which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have reached in their three-hour film biography of "The Great Ziegfeld," which is now running at the Colonial Theatre. In comparison with this musical of musicals previous super-productions fade to the class of colossal on a small scale...
Strike Me Pink (Samuel Goldwyn). In the process of establishing himself as a Hollywood reincarnation of Florenz Ziegfeld, Producer Sam Goldwyn, who says he does not care how much a picture costs so long as it pleases Mrs. Goldwyn, expended more than usual pains on Strike Me Pink. He had the script, made from a Saturday Evening Post story by Clarence Budington Kelland, worked over by 14 writers in teams of two. He cut out a $100,000 dance sequence because it made the picture too long. He added a $75,000 episode to the plot because it made...