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Such was the debut of dynamic, 58-year-old Soprano Mary Garden as an operatic coach, at Chicago Musical College. Founded in 1867 by Dr. Florenz Ziegfeld, father of the late musicomedy producer, this privately-run institution is the oldest music school in continuous existence in the U. S.. is now headed by Pianist Rudolph Ganz. This spring when an intermediary suggested to Soprano Garden that she teach there for six weeks, the onetime prima donna of the Chicago Opera willingly accepted. Tuition for the course ("Opera - Stage Deportment - Dramatic Song''): $150. From hundreds of applicants...
Died. Dorothy Dell Goff, 19, blonde cinemactress (Wharf Angel, Little Miss Marker); in an automobile accident; near Altadena, Calif. A series of beauty contests brought her titles of "Miss American Legion," "Miss New Orleans," "Miss America." Florenz Ziegfeld gave her a job in the Follies of 1931 after she became Galveston's "Miss Universe" in a $2.98 white bathing suit. In Hollywood she was being groomed for stardom...
Warner Baxter again heads the cast of a Hollywood musical extravaganza of the sort which is steadily encroaching upon the field once monopolized by Florenz Ziegfeld and George White on the legitimate stage. The show is "Stand Up and Cheer" at the Keith's Memorial Theatre on Tremont Street...
...Seattle girl. Olive McKean, coached by the Washington Athletic Club's famed Ray Daughters. There was another new name last week- Mrs. Arthur Jarrett-but sports-page readers had no trouble identifying her as Eleanor Holm. Eleanor Holm used to be spoken of as a Follies girl because Florenz Ziegfeld once offered her a job she did not take. Last week she was described as returning from a career in Hollywood because, after the 1932 Olympics, she accepted a cinema contract that led to a crumb part in one picture and to marriage with Crooner Jarrett. Most...
Ziegfeld Follies (presented by Mrs. Florenz ["Billie Burke"] Ziegfeld; staged by Bobby Connolly and John Murray Anderson; settings by Watson Barratt and Albert R. Johnson; songs by Billy Rose, Vernon Duke, Samuel Pokrass and Dana Suesse). Florenz Ziegfeld spent only $13,000 on his first Follies in 1907. Critic Percy Hammond called it a "loud and leering orgy of indelicacy and suggestiveness." A huge success, it began a tradition for gorgeous extravaganzas. Every year, with a mounting disdain of money, Ziegfeld put on a new edition of his Follies. After 1910 all but one opened in Manhattan...