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Died. Frank Tinney, 62, star of oldtime Ziegfeld and Earl Carroll revues, during the early '20s one of Broadway's three leading blackface comedians (the other two: Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor); in poverty, at Northport...
Boys and Girls Together (Music by Sammy Fain, lyrics by Jack Yellen & Irving Kahal; produced by Ed Wynn). The late great Florenz Ziegfeld was not overly popular with comics. He was firm in the belief that funnymen should remain on the stage only long enough to give his girls a chance to change their clothes. In Boys and Girls Together, Ed Wynn reverses the master's dictum. From the moment he steps out of an old trunk in Act I to announce that all the actors come from show boats and hence his "cast was bred upon the waters...
Died. William Anthony McGuire, 53, prolific, publicity-shy Broadway playwright (Six Cylinder Love, Twelve Miles Out), scriptwriter for the late Florenz Ziegfeld (Rosalie, Smiles, Whoopee), cinemauthor (The Great Ziegfeld, Lillian Russell, many an Eddie Cantor musicomedy) ; of a stroke; in Beverly Hills...
Died. Jessica ("Jessie") Reed, 43, five-times-married Ziegfeld showgirl and once one of the highest-paid chorines in the world; of pneumonia and anemia; as a charity patient in Chicago's Osteopathic Hospital. Same day her daughter Ann Carroll de Brow won a Texas beauty contest...
...Springs, Ark., ended around 1935. Dead was Gangster Vannie Higgins, who had owned and piloted his own airplane. Bootlegger Frankie Yale (Uale), bumped off, had been given a $50,000 funeral. Gunman Legs Diamond had at last been rubbed out, and his flowerlike Kiki Roberts, who had danced in Ziegfeld's Follies, had gone back to dancing in a roadhouse for a living. In 1935 organized crime appeared to have hit the skids...