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...Flier Clarence Duncan Chamberlin is not the cinema type, as reported, Miss Ruth Elder apparently is. The New York-to-Atlantic Ocean flier was besought by Florenz Ziegfeld last week to play the part of the American girl in his motion picture to glorify that young lady...
operetta.*The Three Musketeers, a Florenz Ziegfeld operetta, has all the impedimenta of its kind; there are frequent pretty songs, enormous numbers of beautiful girls with too many clothes on, flocks of toe dancers who caper around the stage in wide skirts and bonnets. Equipped with dusters, they would look as if they had just jumped out of a can of glorified Dutch Cleanser. There is also a plot about Messrs. D'Artagnan, Athos, Aramis, and Porthos; they are serving the King of France to the best of their ability and making love to ladies. D'Artagnan himself...
There can be no doubt that this "musical version" of the novel of famed Author Alexandre Dumas is as good as any such production is likely to be. Mr. Ziegfeld, hitherto the most ardent sponsor of these things, has announced that he intends to produce no more of them...
Died. Nora Bayes, 47, famed and beautiful actress in vaudeville and musical comedies, from the results of an abdominal operation performed at the Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn. In 1907 she made her Manhattan debut in the first edition of the Ziegfeld Follies. She was five times married. When her hair turned grey at an early age she made the color fashionable instead of making it different with dyes. Her Manhattan apartment had a "Welcome" mat at its door for all impoverished actors. The day before she went to the hospital she appeared in a benefit performance...
Except for Harry Lauder, who owns his own show and makes some $10,000 a week, Mr. Yoelson's salary is the largest known in theatrical circles. Marilyn Miller gets $6,000 in Rosali. Eddie Cantor, before his illness, was making $5,000 in Mr. Ziegfeld's Follies. Moran and Mack as a vaudeville team get $3,000 a week...