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Evangeline was young, beautiful, full of curiosity about Life. She had just finished school at Lausanne and was supposed to go straight home to north Oxford, to her drearily respectable aunt. But Andre, a lesser Ziegfeld of Paris, happened to share her compartment. That was how it all started. Evangeline went to Deauville with Andre, to Montparnasse with Alexei, with Heinz to the Nudist colony at Himmelheim, with Count Ferdinand to Venice. Sold to Tycoon Constantine, she yachted comfortably to Smyrna just in time to meet the pillaging Turkish army. It looked then as if she might have to spend...
...pressagent quoted Showman Ziegfeld: "Women glorify gowns and certain gowns can glorify certain girls...
...went to Europe, won a million dollars at Monte Carlo and saw the Folies Bergere. The first Ziegfeld Follies appeared in 1907-08. Critic Percy Hammond called it "a loud & leering orgy of indelicacy & suggestiveness." Subsequent Follies helped to make Ziegfeld a millionaire, "glorified" a succession of beautiful women,* including Justine Johnstone, Olive Thomas, Marilyn Miller (he called hers "the most beautiful form in the world"), Yvonne Taylor ("she wore the most beautiful tights"), Mae Murray, Lilyan Tashman, Ina Claire, Billie Dove, Mary Hay, Nita Naldi, Marion Davies, Peggy Hopkins Joyce. He was responsible for the fame of Will Rogers...
...claimed that Frankie Bailey had the most beautiful form of the oldtime beauties. Someone told him King Edward VII preferred May Yohe. "So?" said Ziegfeld. "Well, King Edward was no judge...
Died. Florenz Ziegfeld, 63, Manhattan showman, "glorifier of the American girl"; of heart failure following pneumonia; in Los Angeles...