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...needed to carry the Washington delegation, which included Senator James J. Davis, U. S. Treasurer William A. Julian, Joseph Tumulty, George Creel, White House Secretary Stephen T. ("Steve") Early. At the reception they mingled with Bernard Baruch, Banker Sidney J. Weinberg, Publisher Ogden Reid, Mrs. Billie Burke Ziegfeld...
With a rich continental accent, a dapper Italian Count for her manager and a lady-like reticence about her private affairs, Josephine Baker, Negro dancer of Paris, returned to Manhattan to exhibit her acts in a new Ziegfeld Follies. When she left the U. S. ten years ago, she was practically unknown. Daughter of a St. Louis department store porter, she had run away from home, earned $25 per week clowning in the chorus of Shuffle Along...
James Barton's father was a minstrel. His mother sang the lead in the original Black Crook company. He began his stage career at 5, played boat shows, tent shows, summer stock, vaudeville and burlesque, put in 15 years on Broadway, danced in the Ziegfeld Follies. His press-agent publicized him as "the man with the laughing feet." Professionals rated him as the world's No. 3 hoofer (No. 1, Bill Robin son; No. 2, Fred Astaire). But his reputation never satisfied him until he played Jeeter Lester in Tobacco Road (TIME, July 2, 1934). Barton tried...
Such was the debut of dynamic, 58-year-old Soprano Mary Garden as an operatic coach, at Chicago Musical College. Founded in 1867 by Dr. Florenz Ziegfeld, father of the late musicomedy producer, this privately-run institution is the oldest music school in continuous existence in the U. S.. is now headed by Pianist Rudolph Ganz. This spring when an intermediary suggested to Soprano Garden that she teach there for six weeks, the onetime prima donna of the Chicago Opera willingly accepted. Tuition for the course ("Opera - Stage Deportment - Dramatic Song''): $150. From hundreds of applicants...
...makes $12,000 a year; the best, more. Possibly the most dangerous sport in the world, it supports 250 performers a year, of whom many graduate to other professions. Onetime performers at Prescott were Tom Mix, Hoot Gibson, Harold Bell Wright, Russell Boardman, Earl Sande. Will Rogers reached the Ziegfeld Follies and Hollywood by way of the rodeo. Wandering about Times Square last week, wearing broad-brimmed Stetsons and high heels, were half a dozen rodeo performers whose names are as familiar to rodeo enthusiasts as the names of Babe Ruth, Mickey Cochrane and Dizzy Dean to sports-page readers...