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Sirs: I have read with interest in your issue of June 22, 1931, an article deploring the fact that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad had no rail connection with New York City, and for that reason it was intimated it could not carry Mr. Florenz Ziegfeld's 70 "glorified" girls to Pittsburgh to have a try out in that city before the Follies opened their show in New York. It is perfectly proper and within Mr. Ziegfeld's rights for him to use any means of transportation for his company he may select. However, I would like...
...imply the movement could have been made better by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, or that Mr. Ziegfeld would have been more pleased in using it. I am asserting it could have been made just as well...
Sirs: In your review of the Ziegfeld Follies, July 13 issue, you refer to the Britton Gang Orchestra as "breaking peanut brittle violins...
...appearance on the Los Angeles stage in Rebound last October followed a period of depression unique in the annals of Ina Claire. Born at Washington, D. C. in 1892 and named Ina Fagan, she had become by 1915 a distinguished performer in the Ziegfeld Follies. Ten years later, she was the first comedienne of the Manhattan stage, able to give her baldest line the glitter of an epigram. Her first venture in Hollywood was an undistinguished effort for Pathe called The Awful Truth. Her next was a marriage with John Gilbert which resulted in such frantic publicity for the last...
Other Follies songs that will be heard: "I'm With You," "Sunny Southern Smile." Flesh fashion note: Mr. Ziegfeld has en dorsed the return of larger busts. False rumor: that the elephants who carry the undressed girls are real...