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...come and play wiz me?" in England. He invited her to New York and in 1896 put her into his first theatrical production A Parlour Match. For twelve years she played in one after another mildly daring show of his, became America's foremost showgirl and Mrs. Ziegfeld...
...must to all men, Death came last week to Florenz Ziegfeld, 63, master showman. Stricken with bronchial pneumonia, he had gone west to recover, planning to stage his Follies in Los Angeles during the Olympic Games. In Hollywood he had a relapse. After .his physicians had thought him out of danger his heart gave way, he gasped twice, died before his wife and daughter could get to him from a nearby cinema studio. His mother, dying in Chicago, was not told of his death...
Broadway knew "Flo" Ziegfeld for his temperament, his lavishness, his lack of humor, his publicity-madness. Broadway liked him nonetheless. Since the 1890's his short figure, his broad, pink face, thick nose and sharp eyes had been familiar to theatregoers. But he never let the public forget that his father had founded the Chicago Musical College, that his second job ?his first was with Buffalo Bill's show? was that of manager of the college. In 1892 he went to Europe to get orchestras for the Chicago World's Fair. On their failing, he went to New York...
...Showman Ziegfeld remembered reading that a famed French beauty bathed in asses' milk. He ordered gallons of milk sent to Actress Held's apartment, waited. The milk company sued him; newshawks asked the reason for so huge a bill. Ziegfeld exhibited to them smiling Anna neckdeep in a milk-filled bath tub. That and her wasp-waist made her famous. He divorced her in 1912. She died in 1918, crippled by her corsets...
...Actress Billie Burke at a masquerade party with Somerset Maugham. Ziegfeld was dressed as a tramp. He rushed home, changed to full dress, sprayed himself with perfume. Actress Burke liked the perfume. He courted her quietly, with Grant's Tomb their usual rendezvous. On the day that Lefty Louis, one of the murderers of Herman Rosenthal, was executed, alert newsmen discovered that Showman Ziegfeld had married Actress Burke in Hoboken. They shared the front page with Lefty Louis...