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...Held sing "won't you come and play wiz me?" in England. He invited her to New York and in 1896 put her into his first theatrical production A Parlour Match. For twelve years she played in one after another mildly daring show of his, became America's foremost showgirl and Mrs. Ziegfeld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Glorifier's End | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

Leaving a party at Manhattan's swank Central Park Casino at 3 a. m. Louis J. Ehret, 22, grandson of the late Brewer George Ehret, drove his automobile into a Central Park lamppost. His companion, beauteous Eileen Wenzel ("Miss St. Louis" of 1925, lately a Ziegfeld showgirl) was severely cut on the face by glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 27, 1932 | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

When the Belgenland reached Fire Island, N.Y., on her return from a six-day cruise to Halifax, it was 1 a.m. At a sweepstakes party were Hisashi Fujimura, rich Japanese importer (Asahi Corp.), and his mistress-svelte, blonde, beauteous Mrs. Mary Dale von Reissner, onetime showgirl. She was travelling with him in the guise of governess to his seven-year-old daughter Toshika. During the voyage there had been some stateroom resentment over their affair. At 1 a.m., Importer Fujimura left the party. Except for the testimony of a staff officer and a stewardess who thought that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 31, 1931 | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

...admirers like to watch her small, lively figure, her wise, short-cropped little head, and listen to her pleasantly soft voice. They were sorry to see her show fail, for Mary Hay once created a type: the intelligent showgirl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 16, 1931 | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...moaning Showgirl Helen ("Boop Boop-a-Doop") Kane announced: "It is really 'Poop Poop-a-Doop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 23, 1931 | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

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