Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the establishment of the Rhodes scholarships in 1904 more than six hundred graduates of American colleges have made use of them to study at Oxford. Now these alumni of the great English university are planning to show their appreciation by raising an endowment fund to be used by it for building and research purposes or, if it prove necessary in later years, to supplement the original Rhodes Fund...
Before long, his keen and roving eye for the aesthetic beauty of the female figure caused him to enlarge the focus of his attention. He produced a dignified operetta called The Red Feather and another more sprightly beauty show called Mile, Fifi. His first wife was Anna Held, who starred in this show, became famous for singing "I Can't Make My Eyes Behave," and who had the narrowest waistline in the U. S. at a time when such details commanded favorable notice...
...dreary musical comedies which littered Broadway, he produced The Follies, a revue which took its name from the Parisian Folies Bergères and duplicated its gay and daring makeup. New Yorkers, at this time innocent of the malpractice which has since become famous as the "buttock and leg show," danced with frantic eagerness to see what Ziggy* had done. They discovered over the door the legend which, however inaccurate or uncomplimentary it may have seemed, described its author's business in terms that have been remembered. "Glorifying the American Girl" was the legend...
...reach Greenly Island, and that it contained, by a fortunate exception in the regulations made especially for him, Marie Marrifield, one of his dancers, who was hurrying to see a sick sister. Ziggy reflected also that next autumn, in Manhattan, he would have two simultaneous Manhattan productions of Show Boat, his greatest hit. He debated with himself whether to hire famed Comedienne Beatrice Lillie (Lady Peel), and he took counsel with himself, while a continent trembled, whether to produce another Follies. Also he wondered how things would go with Billie Burke when she returned to the stage after long absence...
...fought his way to a startling five to five victory. Ably backed by his fighting team he pitched only as well as his Princetonian opponent who also had the better end of a five run tie. Several times during the game the reversible battery reversed itself with a creditable show of technique and flaming Crimson...