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There is a notable scene in The Rendezvous (expensive New York cafe) where Gilda Gray "she shakes and she jiggles ev'ry mussil of her body" for 25c., one quarter, the twentieth part of what it costs to see her do the same thing in the Ziegfeld Follies...
...people who attended the Firpo-Willard fight: two Governors, Silzer (N. J.) and Smith (Vt.); three former Governors, Cox (Ohio), Davis (Ohio), Edwards (N. J.); A. H. Smith (President N. Y. Central Railroad), Charles H. Sabin (President Guaranty Trust Co., Manhattan), John Ringling (circus man), Mr. and Mrs. Flo Ziegfeld, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, Barney Oldfield, Ralph De Palma, Jim Corbett, George M. Cohan, Benny Leonard, Lew Tendler, Senator Walter E. Edge (N. J.), Princess Bibesco, Mike de Pike...
...sang in a choir and gave music lessons in Little Rock, Ark., her birthplace, to obtain money to take her to New York. There, in 1920, she entered the chorus of the 'Greenwich Village Follies, was given the prima donna role after three weeks, appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies the next two years...
...REJUVENATED) FOLLIES? The outlook wasn't brilliant for the buyers when Mr. Ziegfeld announced the second season of the year-old Follies. Thousands of pleading, imprecating letters from cloak-and-suit men the country over forced him to change his mind. Accordingly he has published a " revised " edition of the Follies. Retaining Gilda Gray, Gallagher and Shean, Evelyn Law, Andrew Tombs, he has added such personages as Ann Pennington, Brooke Johns, Eddie Cantor. The result is a freshening pulse throughout...
...government-subsidized theatres presents a repertory season including the classics and semi-classics of the French stage as well as occasional new pieces. Almost equally well known in their way are the Follies Bergéres and the Casino de Paris, the two big theatres that house revues of the Ziegfeld Follies sort-only very much franker...