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...have added six new songs and two ballets to 'Rosalie' since the opening night in Boston," were the words of Florenz Ziegfeld as he left the South Station Saturday night for New York, where "Rosalie" is having its premiere tonight...
Show Boat. Edna Ferber fashioned for herself one of the happiest New Years in New York. In the same week a play of hers (The Royal Family) started what seemed to be her first great success in the theatre, and Florenz Ziegfeld's musical comedy made from her novel established itself magnificently as the best of its kind in town. She did not write the songs and jokes, but the librettist held closely to her basic story. The floating theatre on the Mississippi made a perfect background; Negro singers helped the melodies. These tunes were by Jerome David Kern...
...musical comedy stages by the Duncan Sisters. When Mariana Michelsky sang her songs in the honkytonks, the cheap sports stopped talking and stared at her with the impudence fading out of their faces. A few years later, called Gilda Gray by that time, she went into the Ziegfeld Follies in Manhattan. Since then she has toured the U. S., acted in cinemas, allowed her husband, Gil Boag (against whom she has recently filed charges in a suit for divorce), to advertise her as well as any woman has ever been advertised...
...have rushed a host of accomplished specialists with important contributions. Marc Connelly, playwright & seer, provides the general forecast for the approaching year; Critic Nathan suggests a breath-taking change in post-Volstead nomenclature; Banker Streeter* supplies a startling opinion of what 1928 will do for Big Business; Florenz Ziegfeld dissertates on his favorite topic; poems flow from many a pen of unquestioned talent; and, to choose from a multitude of other writings what may be most significant, famed "Texas" Guinan sets down on paper an intense, concise, illuminating treatise on inebriety in its various manifestations. Despite the presence of some...
...goes through the other months with the following among others, contributing their specialities--poems, wit, essays, drawings, criticism: John Macy, Marc Connelly, Dorothy Parker, George Jean Nathan, Phillips Russell, A.H. Woods, Ida M. Tarbell, Sidney S. Lenz, Jane Cowl, H.L. Mencken, and Florenz Ziegfeld...