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...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's New Amsterdam...
...good songs: "Suddenly," "Moon About Town," "I Like the Likes of You" and "To the Beat of the Heart." It has flocks of pretty, nimble girls, twittering in and out, nearly lost behind beautiful costumes. And, above all, on opening night it had in the audience Critic Hammond to announce that it ". . . breaks all known records for public obscenity...
...Heffner, Sec. 3 Sever 31 German 5 Sever 29 German 6 Sever 17 Government 9a Emerson D Government 13b Emerson A Greek 12 Sever 29 History 5a New Lect. Hall History 9 Emerson 211 History 13 Harvard 6 Latin B (see footnote*) Professor Pease, Sec. 1 Sever 17 Mr. Hammond, Sec. 2 Sever 13 Dr. Chase, Sec. 3 Sever 14 Latin 1 Sever 19 Mathematics A III (see footnote*) Dr. Whitney, Sec. 1 Harvard 2 Mr. Downs, Sec. 2 Sever 18 Mr. Leighton, Sec. 3 Sever 18 Mathematics 2 II (see footnote*) Professor Stone, Sec. 1 Harvard 5 Dr. Rust...
...Arts 15d Van Rensselaer Rm.French 9 Emerson 211Geology 17a Sever 6German B Sever AGerman 1a (see footnote*)Dr. Nolte, Sec. 2 Memorial HallProfessor Silz, Sec. 3 Memorial HallGerman 2 (see footnote*)Professor Lieder, Sec. 2 Memorial HallProfessor Starck, Sec. 4 Memorial HallGerman 12a Sever 2Greek B (see footnote*)Mr. Hammond, Sec. 1 Sever 31History 10a Emerson DHistory 12 Harvard 6History 28 Emerson DHistory 56b Sever 17Latin 12 Sever 17Mathematics A II (see footnote*)Professor Coolidge, Sec. 1 Mallinckrodt MB9Dr. Myers, Sec. 2 Mallinckrodt MB9Mr. Steen, Sec. 3 Mallinckrodt MB9Mr. Ballou, Sec. 4 Mallinckrodt MB9Mr. Curtiss, Sec. 5 Mallinckrodt MB9Mathematics...
Tangipahoa parishioners showed more invention. Only "ballot box'' they provided was a garbage can on Hammond's main street, labeled "Vote here if you want to." On a gallows in the Hammond town square they hanged a two-faced effigy. One face was that of the local Longster, Judge Amos Lee Ponder Jr. The other had a black eye and was labeled: LONG ISLAND HUEY LONG, Every Dog Has His Day. When the sun set on the revolting parishes, Mrs. Kemp had received 5,000 votes. Normal vote...