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Born. To Comedienne Billie Burke and the late Florenz Ziegfeld: their first grandchild, a girl; in Hollywood. Weight: 7 Ibs. Name: Florenz Ziegfeld Stephenson...
...German-born Cinemactress Luise Rainer (The Good Earth, The Great Ziegfeld) became a U. S. citizen. When she returned from Europe recently, she realized how much her new citizenship meant to her, wanted to do something for her adopted country. What she could do best was act. Though she had never appeared on a U. S. stage, she had acted abroad under Max Reinhardt and others...
...pressuring. They think fast and try stunts. Publicity stunts have turned many a tide. Anna Held's fame dates chiefly from her milk baths. Belasco strewed tanbark outside a theatre, ostensibly to cushion street noises, actually to start people talking. Lions have been let loose in hotel bedrooms, Ziegfeld girls have marched to New York's City Hall in tights...
...Eddie's younger brother, Roy. In 1937, the Follies were as crude as a road company of East Lynne. Next year the little St. Paul troupe was more professional. Last year they were still better. This year their show was as polished as any Follies the late Florenz Ziegfeld ever produced...
...Exposition looks wistful and envious at such a San Francisco-smash hit as the Ice Follies of 1939. The Fair's Midway is mediocre but alive; the Exposition's Gayway exploits sex (without glamor) to the smutmost; and its chief theatrical offering, Jake Shubert's Ziegfeld Follies of 1939, is a flop...