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Horseshoe flings a gay revue of yesteryear, all fluffy ruffles and "cheesecake." Scenes of pre-War Rector's, of Delmonico's on New Year's Eve with Diamond Jim Brady and Lillian Russell, a medley of old Ziegfeld Follies tune hits, tincture sex with nostalgia. Waddling souvenir of the past is onetime Glamor Girl Fritzi Scheff gurgling Kiss Me Again...
...Ferdinand de Lesseps (whose wives and children were not accounted for in Suez), Jesse James, admirers of Alexander Graham Bell. Last month cinemaddicts who saw Producer Zanuck's Rose of Washington Square, in which Alice Faye redeems her swindler husband, Tyrone Power, by singing My Man from a Ziegfeld stage, wondered whether his foot had not slipped again (TIME, May 15). For My Man was introduced in 1920 by Ziegfeld Star Fannie Brice, when her second husband, Nicky Arnstein, was a fugitive on a swindling charge. After seeing Rose of Washington Square, Fannie Brice saw her lawyer. Last week...
...that any resemblance to fact is purely "coincidental." This legal formula has never rung more hollowly. The picture chronicles the rise of Mammy-Singer Al Jolson, renamed Ted Cotter and played by Al Jolson. Ted's good friend in the picture is one Rose Sargent (Alice Faye), a Ziegfeld star whose worthless husband (Tyrone Power) besmirches her name by fleeing justice after he becomes involved in a bond scandal. Rose vows her loyalty and, by sobbing out from the Ziegfeld stage the song My Man, persuades her husband to give himself up, plead guilty and take a five-year...
Engaged. Patricia Ziegfeld, 22, only daughter of Cinemactress Billie Burke and the late Florenz Ziegfeld; to William Stephenson,* 26, dance instructor; in Hollywood...
Died. Henri Grechen, 73, bearded old Manhattan barber who cut the hair of Mark Twain, Florenz Ziegfeld, the elder J. P. Morgan, Marshal Joffre, claimed credit for inventing the "bob"; after long illness; in Hawthorne...