Word: ziegfelds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born of Czech parents in Chicago 27 years ago, she took her first dancing lesson when she was 12. She danced in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1922, in This Year of Grace (1928). Two months of Hollywood under harddriving, gum-chewing Albertina Rasch were followed by a two-year break down. She is married to William R. Kaelin who is in the treasurer's office of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. She hates noise and night clubs, practices her dances an hour a day even when...
Once again last week news of Norine Lattimore caused painful embarrassment for another Dolores, who a decade ago used to stalk handsomely about the stage of the Ziegfeld Follies disguised as a white peacock.* There was some excuse for the confusion. Both were famed at the same time. Both were tall, beautiful and British. Both had been models and neither was christened Dolores. But Kathleen Marie Rose, the Dolores of the Follies, has never caused a suicide, slept on a park bench, married a Negro, done a fasting act in a barrel. On her retirement from the stage she married...
Died. Dorothy Dell Goff, 19, blonde cinemactress (Wharf Angel, Little Miss Marker); in an automobile accident; near Altadena, Calif. A series of beauty contests brought her titles of "Miss American Legion," "Miss New Orleans," "Miss America." Florenz Ziegfeld gave her a job in the Follies of 1931 after she became Galveston's "Miss Universe" in a $2.98 white bathing suit. In Hollywood she was being groomed for stardom...
Warner Baxter again heads the cast of a Hollywood musical extravaganza of the sort which is steadily encroaching upon the field once monopolized by Florenz Ziegfeld and George White on the legitimate stage. The show is "Stand Up and Cheer" at the Keith's Memorial Theatre on Tremont Street...
...distinguished itself by coming back 25 years later, not as a sentimental hangover, but as a tune so fresh and melodic that many a youngster thought it was new. Jack Norworth wrote "Harvest Moon" when he and Nora Bayes were married. They sang it in the first Ziegfeld Follies in which Nora wore a white muslin dress, a floppy hat and Jack white flannels, a long blue coat and a pancake straw. The World-Telegram devotes its piece to Norworth, now a stalky, white-haired man who sells cocktail biscuits to supplement his royalties. ("Harvest Moon" has earned him some...