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...Monday night the performance was unbelievably "peppy". The dancing stood out as the exceptional feature. Not one person in any chorus number has the appearance of being bored to death.... as so many Ziegfeld chorus beauties have. Men and women alike were apparently having the time of their life. And the audience was not slow in catching their spirit. Steps of the most complicated and involved nature were danced without apparent effort, and with sure-fire uniformity by a beautifully drilled chorus. Encores of the most generous character were given, and still the chorus seemed untired. Dances that would prostrate...
Died. Brigadier General Florenz Ziegfeld, 82, U. S. A., retired, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, founder and President Emeritus of the Chicago Musical College, father of Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., theatrical producer, in Chicago. Dr. Ziegfeld, as a young music student, knew Wagner, Liszt, Rubenstein. Born in Germany, he came to the United States just before the Civil War, in which he served as Lieutenant Colonel of an Illinois regiment...
...leading musical comedies: Ziegfeld Follies, Jack and Jill, Wildflower, Music...
That this is due to plain laziness and lack of ability and is not out of consideratioin for the demands of the somewhat mythical T.B.M. is demonstrated by the work of Florenz Ziegfeld and John Murray Anderson. The genius of these two gentlemen is responsible for raising the general level of musical revues in America far above that of any other country. They refused to subscribe to the trade dictum that people like the old jokes best, or that the old tunes can be polished up to look like new, or that stage sets designed by a scenic factory...
...clubmen, wins a doubtful point. KIKI - Aside from holding the Broadway endurance record, Lenore Ulric is as brightly captivating as ever in the part of the just barely virtuous little Parisienne. The best current musical shows: Caroline, Chauve Souris, Greenwich Village Follies, Little Nellie Kelly, Liza, Music Box Revue, Ziegfeld Follies...