Word: ziegfeld
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Emerson's fellow transcendentalist, Margaret Fuller, Bucky in 1913 became a fifth-generation Harvard man. Within two years he had been thrown out twice -the second and final time for running off to New York to blow his semester's living expenses on dinner for the entire Ziegfeld chorus line...
...career. It was 1946, and for postwar Americans she still evoked the simpler times when Andy Hardy was in love and the Land of Oz was rainbow hued. Meanwhile, Liza's father, a courtly, cultivated man whom she still idolizes, was busy creating such polished movie musicals as Ziegfeld Follies and Meet Me in St. Louis. Though sometimes frenetic, family life was full of laughter, flowers and music. It was also somehow unreal...
Died. Max Steiner, 83, longtime movie-score composer; in Hollywood. A Viennese prodigy, Steiner began songwriting and conducting while still a teenager. He migrated to the U.S. in 1914, wrote music and did arrangements for George White and Florenz Ziegfeld, then went to Hollywood in 1930. Of his more than 200 scores, three won Oscars-for The Informer (1935), Now Voyager (1942) and Since You Went Away...
...dimple-kneed darling of George White's Scandals and popularizer of the Black Bottom dance craze in the '20s; of a brain tumor; in Manhattan. "Tiny" Pennington-she stood 4 ft. 11½ in. in heels and weighed just over 100 lbs.-started out in Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies, where White was her dancing partner in 1915. When White went on his own four years later, he took Tiny with him. She soon shimmied her way to $1,000-a-week stardom in films and on the stage. Her career faded after the flapper...
...skimmed milk is a thorough bore throughout, and the only part I really enjoyed was when I had a short nap. There is no fault to be found with the cast, but the play itself, the plot, the dreary scenery, the monotonous songs and the tinsely imitation of Ziegfeld's gorgeous costumes are not to be believed...