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...received some commercials during the evening, and a credit line in every society-page story the next day. On the whole, she was pleased and had only one real criticism. She thought the debutantes had been rushed through their curtsies too fast: "They ran those girls through just like Ziegfeld Follies girls-with clothes." In a more leisurely era, socially prominent young ladies made their debuts under family auspices. In recent years mass debuts have become the rule, and the modern deb has a commercial sponsor...
Berle, Betty Mutton, Edward G. Robinson, Jane Froman, Joe E. Lewis, got up to reminisce about buxom Sophie Abuza of Hartford, Conn., who became Sophie Tucker and made the long haul from singing in the ginmills to the Ziegfeld Follies and the big time. Now pushing 70 and white-thatched, "The Last of the Red-Hot Mamas" will soon open a four-week stint at Manhattan's Latin Quarter. Said she, dabbing her eyes: "Some of the showmen who were around when I began, they're still around, dearie, but very few of the women are around." Sophie...
When Harvard wins "an important athletic contest," its undergraduates allow "youthful exuberance [to] overcome a natural scholastic reserve"-which is Russell Janney's way of saying that, here and there, hell breaks loose. So when lovely Olga Halka, Ziegfeld chorus girl and heroine of Janney's new novel, left the Boston Colonial Theater on such a victorious night, exuberant hearties closed in, dragged her off into the darkness. "Help!" screamed Olga. "Help!" Help came: a "huge figure" dressed in armor and wearing a golden cross. With stunning blows "from [his] mighty mailed fist" the apparition mowed down...
...captain of the S.S. Europa. In America, Tightpants marries Olga, who hails from Wilkes-Barre and is a living replica of the Madonna. She is also musically inclined and bats out a lyric entitled Bungalow on Broadway, which is all set to be the hit of a new Ziegfeld show. But Ziegfeld dies, Bungalow is shelved, and Olga develops cancer. While her life is ebbing, Tightpants has to keep his upper lip stiff and accompany two comedians "in a battle with lemon meringue pies." Tears pour from the stone Madonna's eyes, her breast turns red with grief. When...
Remarried. Virginia Bruce, 42 onetime Ziegfeld Follies girl and cinemactress (Yellow Jack, Escapade); and Ali Ipar, 31, Turkish film producer. Married first in 1946, they were divorced in 1951 when he began his compulsory Turkish army service, because Turkish law forbids commissions to men married to foreigners; in Istanbul...