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...sets for the Metropolitan Opera, refrigerators, radios, root-beer bottles, magazine layouts, furniture, downtown Toledo, motor cars, gasoline stations, the interiors of Pan American Airways' China Clippers, Fifth Avenue store windows, a tent without poles for the Ringling Bros, circus. Designer of more than 50 theatrical productions (Ziegfeld Follies; Lady, Be Good; Fifty Million Frenchmen), he was also one of the first big-time talents to enter the field of industrial design, crowned that phase of his activities with the General Motors Futurama at the 1939 New York World's Fair...
...year. Much oftener there is ordinary Saturday-night hoopla, not to speak of Monday-morning doldrums. The show is thoroughly professional in the sense that it is thoroughly routine. The tunes seem sold by the dozen, the gags come packaged and ready to serve. There is not much of Ziegfeld's idea of the body beautiful, and there must be too much trite and tired business for even the tired businessman...
...lecture about her experiences. Still a smasher in a low-cut evening gown, she would go offstage and return in her tattered asylum gown and bring the house down in tears of indignation. Eventually Harriet was reunited with her daughter Margaret, who, after a brief stint on the Ziegfeld stage, led a useful life as an editor and teacher, and now, in her 70s, is co-author of this book...
Died. Belle Baker (real name: Bella Becker), 62, black-eyed vaudeville singer with a powerful "early-morning" husky voice, who meteored from poverty to fame with richly plaintive versions of Eli Eli and My Yiddishe Momme, star (1926) of Flo Ziegfeld's production of Betsy, by Rodgers and Hart; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...
Died. Eugene Edward (Gene) Buck, 71, longtime (1924-42) chief of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), composer of some 500 songs (Hello, Frisco!, Tulip Time) and talent scout for Flo Ziegfeld (he boomed such unknowns as Ed Wynn, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers); of an aneurysm of the aorta; in Manhasset...