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...Showman Florenz Ziegfeld, 63, in Los Angeles whither he had been taken from a New Mexico sanatorium with pleurisy of both lungs; Adolph S. Ochs, 74, publisher of the New York Times, in Manhattan, following removal of a kidney; Dr. Johann Schober, 57, onetime chancellor of Austria, in Vienna, of a critical heart attack; Mayor Anton J. Cermak, 59, of Chicago, reputedly from convention fatigue and overeating (pickled pigs' feet...
Leaving a party at Manhattan's swank Central Park Casino at 3 a. m. Louis J. Ehret, 22, grandson of the late Brewer George Ehret, drove his automobile into a Central Park lamppost. His companion, beauteous Eileen Wenzel ("Miss St. Louis" of 1925, lately a Ziegfeld showgirl) was severely cut on the face by glass...
Colyumist Sidney Skolsky of the New York Daily News revealed that four streetcars in Scranton, Pa. are painted dark ivory with blue trim, bear the legend "Designed by Florenz Ziegfeld." Officials of the railway explained that the innovation grew out of a magazine article by Showman Ziegfeld criticizing the drabness of streetcars. Later, at a trolleyman's conference in Manhattan Showman Ziegfeld was invited to submit color schemes, of which the ivory & blue was accepted...
...stage show the Metropolitan has gone Ziegfeld with a vengeance. There are of course the Boswell sisters, and Conchita Montenegro, both alluring in their own particular ways, two or three other good acts, and a grand tableau of thirty glorified girls in half-piece bathing suits gamboling in a Louis XIV fountain while colored lights play and the orchestra hits a feverish crescendo. What more do you want for sixty cents...
Late for the opening of Flo Ziegfeld's revival of Show Boat, Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch was making for his seat when the hanger-loop on his overcoat snagged on the button of the usher's uniform. Usher and Financier struggled for a long moment in the darkness. Finally the usher ripped the button...