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...Ziegfeld Follies of 1946 (MGM) may not be the "biggest all-star show of all time," as its sponsors strongly hint, but it will do until a bigger one comes along. A super-spectacular, hyper-Hollywood, tnple-Technicolored variety show, it runs for almost two hours. The total impact is calculated to send cinemaddicts reeling home in a state of dizzy satisfaction...
...Applause. Under her husband's guidance, Cass's comedy became a staple of big time vaudeville. She wowed them with Bobby Clark in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1936-37, stole the show at New York's Paramount Theater. Her earnings jumped to $750 a week. When she toured England, the London Evening Standard gave her ecstatic notices...
Divorced. Vincent Youmans, 47, star-crossed songwriter (Tea for Two, Time on My Hands, Without A Song) who was stricken at meridian (in 1934) with t.b. and has never fully recovered: by Mildred Boots Youmans, 40 ("I do not mind admitting it"), onetime Ziegfeld girl; after more than ten years of marriage, no children; in Reno...
...didn't stand on a corner prostituting my art." As a boy he did flip-flops with Paul McCullough in the backyard. The two practiced acrobatics, soon got jobs on the small time. For 30 years they appeared in tent shows, minstrel shows, circuses, burlesque, vaudeville, the Ziegfeld Follies...
Married. Luise Rainer. 33, bang-browed, earnest-eyed actress, twice winner of Hollywood's top acting honors (The Great Ziegfeld, 1936, The Good Earth, 1937). lately occupied with USOverseas entertaining; and Robert Knittel. English-born editor (Creative Age Press); she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan...