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...twins, Roszicka & Janszieka Deutsch, migrated to the U. S., and transformed themselves into "Rosie & Jennie Dolly" when they made their joint debut at Keith's Union Square Theatre, Manhattan, in 1909. So instantaneous was their dancing hit that, within three years they had appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies of Manhattan and at the Moulin Rouge, famed Paris music hall...
...after converse with a dazzling debutante. Matrons asked their servants to vote Warburton. Anita ("Prefer Blondes") Loos chased her busband (Onetime-Actor John Emerson) to the polls to do likewise. Arthur Hammerstein was fetched from the links by his wife, who used to be Dorothy Dalton. Producer Florenz Ziegfeld glorified the scene at the Town Hall. Many a tradesman advertised his shop by voting as Wealth suggested. Result: Warburton, 482; other candidates...
...Marion Talley made her debut two seasons ago at the Metropolitan, and presently the telegrapher's daughter from Kansas City was making hundreds of thousands of dollars. They did it for. Mary Lewis, the runaway girl from Little Rock, Ark., who slipped overnight from the ranks of a Ziegfeld chorus to the bosom of grand opera. They repeated it again last week for Grace Moore, onetime musical comedy star, of Hitchy-Koo, Up in the Clouds, of Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue...
That the scant-clothed figures of U. S. show girls must and will follow the new mode, rounding out bony flappers into elegant Junos, was proclaimed last week at Chicago by famed Florenz Ziegfeld. Added he: "I don't make a type of girl a favorite. I simply try to pick the girls to fit the clothes the designers provide...
...York without a single number of the opening night left in it. There it will not create a sensation but it will certainly carry on an old tradition before audiences which like its wares. Were it for its beautiful girls alone it would be played before capacity audiences. While Ziegfeld has his production on a higher plane of humor he certainly will have to look to the laurels of his "glorified" girls. After all, why are the "Follies" so popular if not because of its feminine attractions...