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Earl Carroll's Vanities are rococo. Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies are smart. And yet, in spite of his overpowering, unwholesome gaudiness. Earl Carroll is probably a better showman than Florenz Ziegfeld. When he puts on his annual durbar there is a spontaneity to its promotion which Producer Ziegfeld strives painfully to attain. One night last week a crowd choked Manhattan's Seventh Avenue to witness the most recent, most important mile stone in Producer Carroll's theatrical career. He was presenting the ninth annual Vanities in the newest, largest U. S. playhouse...
...interior of Mr. Carroll's $4,500,000 cathedral was obviously not the work of restrained Architect Joseph Urban, who built the Ziegfeld Theatre. It was done by George Keister and Joseph J. Babolnay. Tier upon tier of colored stone ribbed with twinkling metal rose like the bulge of a gigantic layer cake. A loudspeaker in the lobby urged latecomers to hurry...
...Florenz Ziegfeld once called Sally Eilers the most beautiful brunette in Hollywood. She had her real wedding dress copied for her role in Bad Girl; like the girl in the picture, she lived in Manhattan until, after being in the Follies, she became a cinemactress. She likes giving dinner parties, driving the three airplanes which belong to her husband, Cowboy-Actor Hoot Gibson. Like James Dunn, who used to be a sales man of portable lunch wagons, played a small part in Sweet Adeline, and has a clause in his contract saying he must weigh less than...
...have obtained its funds from fraudulent stock transactions, chiefly at the expense of credulous Catholics. Nicknamed "Dinty," Funnyman Dowling calls his 4-ft.-10-in. wife "Peanut," "Snook," "Brat," considers her "a great artist." She is the only woman whose name has appeared in lights above that of Ziegfeld Follies: Their income, from stage, screen and radio enterprises, is augmented by Funnyman Dowling's holdings in a Pasadena, Calif. sausage factory...
...Under her right eye, Eleanor Holm wears a waterproof beauty patch. She is so pretty that Ziegfeld offered her a job in the Follies which her mother persuaded her not to take...