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Martha ("Mickey") Devine Dodge, ex-Ziegfeld beauty who once hit headlines by hitting Primo Camera on the chin at a Paris nightclub, charged her wealthy (automobiles) husband with assault. Major Horace E. Dodge Jr. had been "very rough," she said. Served with a summons in a suit for separation (she wants $60,000 a year alimony), he had stopped in at her Park Avenue apartment, ripped a diamond ring off her finger, yanked a diamond pin from her waist, nearly got a diamond necklace-but that dropped down the front of her dress. She dropped the assault charge after...
...Pennington, dimple-kneed darling of the late Ziegfeld Follies, was back on Broadway in hoopskirts for this week's revival of The Student Prince...
Many an oldster, dozing over last week's show, must have dreamed back to the great days of the New Amsterdam Theater, where the late, great Florenz Ziegfeld made summer official with a new Follies. Perhaps memory winged back to the Follies of 1917, with W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers, Fanny Brice, Bert Williams, Walter Catlett, Peggy Hopkins (later Joyce) in the cast. Or to the Follies of 1919, with a cast hardly less impressive, and such tunes as Tulip Time, Mandy, and the nonpareil Bert Williams' You Cannot Make Your Shimmy Shake...
...Amsterdam roof, after the show, Ziegfeld offered his Midnight Frolic, the most glamorous memory in Manhattan nightclub history. There John J. Pershing did some of his victory dancing and the jazz age got under its fanciest headway to the strains of the late Art Hickman's great band from California playing Avalon, Japanese Sandman and the Tishomingo Blues. There, after midnight, lemonades brought appalling Prohibition prices, the Follies chorus and principals entertained, and the most notable playboys of the postwar period started on their hair-losing ways...
...above everything else, the Follies were-and were meant to be-girl shows. Though he had the greatest clowns of the era, Ziegfeld distrusted most of their turns, thought they detracted from the lure. His most famous show girl, beautiful, English-born Dolores, got a record $650 a week. Ziegfeld seldom issued a chorus call; he kept a "Book of Girls" and out of it came the most delectable, and probably the most wined-&-dined, chorines in the history of show business. A vast number married millionaires; asked, once, just how many, onetime Follies man Georgie White replied...