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...Texas Steer. Will Rogers has become an international humorist. His genial or acidulous lucubrations were once heard, between twirls of a lariat, from the stage of the Ziegfeld Follies; they have since been telegraphed to the New York Times from many odd corners of the globe; they have been accepted with positive pleasure in capitals of Europe. All this has not, obviously, made him proud. Recently, between the moments when a motion picture camera was clicking at his pleasant homely face, a stenographer trailed Funnyman Rogers around the Hollywood studios of the First National Picture Co., jotting down unostentatiously...
...suite at the Ritz-Carlton yesterday afternoon Eddie Cantor, famous comedian of Ziegfeld's "Follies", proudly displayed a tiny gold football awarded to him for his services to the Crimson squad six years ago. "You bet, I'm one of the boys," he chuckled as he twirled the charm about on his watch chain, "and I'm proud of it. In 1922, on the eve of the Harvard-Yale gridiron battle, when the Crimson eleven was on pins and needles in New Haven, I grubbed with them and tried to cheer them up a bit. We had a great show...
Asked about the cost of his various productions, Ziegfeld said that his five shows, "The Follies," "Rosalie," "Show Boat," "Rio Rita," and "The Three Musketeers" cost over $2,200,000 to put on, and that the weekly expense is over...
...Ziegfeld stated that he had kept these ideas in mind when he produced "Show Boat," which he called "the greatest sensation ever seen in America...
...aboard!" shouted the conductor, and Mr. Ziegfeld disappeared into the Pullman. Then Jack Donahue came flitting out onto the platform...