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...Ziegfeld Follies can be thanked for bringing Beatrice Lillie, after four years, back to Broadway. Unhappily, it has brought nothing of its fabled oldtime self back. Not only is Rome not rebuilt in a day; not only do styles in architecture change-even showgirl architecture-but there is the always irreducible need of using good bricks and mortar...
When a public dance hall named Roseland opened on Broadway in 1919, smart young people had recently deserted the waltz for the foxtrot, were just beginning to master the delicate nuances of the shimmy. Sam Lanin and his Ipana Troubadours were on the bandstand, thumping out such Ziegfeld Follies hits as Mandy and You Cannot Make Your Shimmy Shake on Tea. Since that distant New Year's Eve, generations of stag-line Romeos and their girls have bunny-hugged Lindy-hopped, Charlestoned, big-appled black-bottomed and jitterbugged under Roseland's star-studded ceiling...
...pull all these stops out, NBC has sunk $12 million into color production (converting Manhattan's Ziegfeld Theater into a color studio and building the largest color studio in the world in Brooklyn). Seventeen different series of regular shows will be televised in color (compared to only three last year), and on some nights NBC will offer three consecutive hours of color shows, with at least one major show each night (or an average of 15 color hours a week...
...dump on the TV market for the first time about 770 feature films and 900 shorts, all produced before 1949. Among the features-some of the nation's most popular movies in the past three decades -are Easter Parade, Mrs. Miniver, Random Harvest, Gaslight, National Velvet, The Great Ziegfeld, Boys Town, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, The Wizard of Oz, Big House, Grand Hotel, San Francisco, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Good Earth, Little Women, The Three Musketeers, David Copperfield, Treasure Island, A Tale of Two Cities...
Divorced. By Jane Froman, 45, brunette singer of stage (Ziegfeld Follies), nightclubs, radio and TV, wartime U.S.A. favorite whose gallant comeback after a 1943 plane crash in Portugal (and 25 leg operations) was recorded in a Hollywood film biography (With a Song in My Heart): John Curtis Burn, 41, Pan American pilot and officer of the Yankee Clipper that went down with Singer Froman (whom he held above icy Tagus River waters for nearly an hour before being rescued); after eight years of marriage, more than one of separation, no children; in Las Vegas...