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About 8:30 the Molotovs began to receive in one of the large palace rooms under a glittering crystal chandelier. It looked like the last act of Ziegfeld's Rosalie-wave after wave of bedecked diplomats, armchair generals, bathtub admirals from every civilized country and Japan. The Japs arrived in a protective wedge, their runt-sized correspondents flanked by a beefy general, their dapper ambassador overshadowed by a flashy admiral. They all smiled and you kept thinking of Mr. Moto...
...Sister Ethel could tell him off. Once when Jack was a little hazy about a Ziegfeld actor, she remarked: "You should at least know about The Follies. They were named after...
After a quarter of a century in & out of medicine shows, burlesque, vaudeville, Howard made the big time in Joe Cook's Rain Or Shine in 1928, hit $1,100 a week in Ziegfeld's Smiles, and then went to Hollywood with Shelton to store some of their deadpan senselessness in celluloid. Howard claims that "radio made a bum out of me" and he is reconciled to it. The hours are wonderful; he has to work only a couple of days a week; and for his unsophisticated radio audience there is no need to think up new material...
Major Horace E. Dodge Jr., auto heir, was characterized as "a positive detriment to the war effort" in an affidavit filed in Manhattan by his third wife, Martha ("Mickey") Devine, ex-Ziegfeld beauty. She wanted a separation and $60,000-a-year alimony. She said Dodge had once told her: "This is a war as to who will rule the world, between Adolf and Joe, and my vote is for Adolf...
Vaudeville steppingstoned him into musicomedy where, after a couple of slow starts, he came up fast in Roberta, and the Ziegfeld Follies, was starred with Merman and Durante in Red, Hot and Blue. There after radio, and then the movies, made him rich...