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...other hand, Lois Moran topped a middling success in last season's This is New York with an appearance in the smash-hit Of Thee I Sing. Charles ("Buddy") Rogers, and, to a far greater degree, Lupe Velez, are currently enjoying a profitable association with Florenz Ziegfeld in his ornamental Hot-cha! An old leading man of Miss Moran's, Lawrence Gray, lent a dignified if uncertain grace to The Laugh Parade about the same time that Fay Wray starred in a short engagement of her husband's strange musical mixture, Nikki. Life Begins (by Mary McDougal...
Birthdays. Dr. Charles Augustus Leale, 90 (first surgeon to reach Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre after he was shot by John Wilkes Booth); Andrew William Mellon, 77; Richard Beatty Mellon, 74; King Fuad of Egypt, 64; Florenz Ziegfeld, 63; the Knights of Columbus...
...Producer Florenz Ziegfeld is a reactionary at heart. In the face of a musicomedy renaissance, he has produced another melodious fable following a formula that has served for 25 years or more. The formula requires a lavish setting (anywhere outside the U. S.), one juvenile lead, one misunderstood ingenue, one comedian with straight man, a temptress, a torch singer (added since the War), a villain, and the more chorus girls the better...
...more or less his foil. The siren is a dark mite with a great big smile, Cinemactress Lupe Velez. Her shapely shoulders are burdened with that part of the show which Mr. Lahr does not carry. Last week she inspired Hearst Colyumist Arthur Brisbane, whose employer owns the Ziegfeld Theatre, to strike off a memorable simile. Wrote Mr. Brisbane: "Thirty 'glorified' girls that stand behind her and also wriggle are compared to Lupe Velez like 30 plates of ice cream standing behind a red hot coal...
...Cairo; the Alexander Bridge over the Neva in Leningrad; the castle of Prince Esterhazy de Galantha in Hungary. In 1912 he brought a corps of Austrian scene painters to the U. S. to design scenery for the Boston Opera House. Its failure threw him on the mercy of Florenz Ziegfeld. Since then he has done about one-third of the scenery for the Metropolitan Opera, all scenery for Ziegfeld. He gradually crept back into architecture. In recent years he has designed the Ziegfeld Theatre, Palm Beach palazzi for Edward Hyatt Hutton, Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., a Gingerbread Castle...