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...great many healthy young women from country towns have chirped and kicked, at one time or another, in the annual musical revues of Mr. Florenz Ziegfeld-so many, in fact, that the "Ex-Follies Girl" now has the weight of "Ph. D." or "Elk": it connotes membership in a sort of national oddfellows' society...
Once she earned her butter and eggs in Christie Comedies with Colleen Moore in Los Angeles, in the days when film stars thought nothing of scraping segments of mulberry pastry from their well-shaped noses. She spent two years with the Ziegfeld organization. After seven months of study abroad, she made her debut in Vienna as Marguerite, had a London triumph in Hugh the Drover and an even more sensational one in Paris in The Merry Widow. When her Metropolitan contract was announced, every paper blared EX-FOLLIES GIRL TO STAR IN OPERA. Tradition dictates that one out of every...
...Tulsa where it gasped, flopped twice, and lay still. Mary Lewis gave singing lessons to the soubrets and earned enough to buy a ticket to the Coast. After her season with Christie Comedies, she got an engagement with the Greenwich Village Follies, then with Mr. Ziegfeld's. It was during her second winter in Manhattan that she studied languages, opera roles. Last summer in Paris Otto Kahn heard her sing a selection which was not "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam." He arranged an audience with Manager Gatti...
...Europe; in New York, of asthma. Mr. Tiller revolutionized chorus dancing; established numerous dancing schools, from which 25,000 girls have graduated; was the author of an English law protecting dancing children from exploitation; supplied "Tiller Girls" to the Follies Bergère, the Ziegfeld Follies...
Colonial--"Ziegfeld Follies" at 8 o'clock...