Word: ziegfelds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parts. But they show a superior attitude to all the implausible nonsense: It is not in good taste, nor is it just to the public if great artists are insincere. What deserve praise are the photography and the ensemble dances on such a large scale that, were he living, Ziegfeld would feel like a cheapskate if he saw them...
...their receptiveness," said Fanny Brice in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday, "and the city surpasses others because its atmosphere and accommodations are well-suited to the needs and desires of those who follow the stage for their profession." Miss Brice, who is at present playing in the Ziegfeld Follies in Boston, is one of the foremost comediennes in this country and is well known for her amusing dances and burlesques...
...best and in his element. At least a hundred chorines, charming specimens, surround him on several occasions: they dance or do setting-up exercises. There are catchy tunes, intricate routines for the chorus, and an ample amount of wisecracking humor. With a minimum of plot, the director relied on Ziegfeld's tactics for a musical extravaganza with considerable success...
With this statement of his reasons for not releasing the names of all the 36 pictures Universal will make in the coming year, shrewd old Carl Laemmle Sr. last week revealed a few of his immediate plans: a cinema biography of the late Flo Ziegfeld, written by his widow Billie Burke; a dramatization of Only Yesterday to make all but youngsters recall the Nineteen Twenties;-'Charles G. Norris' lusty Zest; a story by Harold Bell Wright called Ma Cinderella, and Vicki Baum's I Give My Love...
Since then she has been a Ziegfeld ballerina, won first prize in a Metropolitan art school competition, doubled for Cinemactress Vilma Banky, spent two years in Hollywood and opened her own ballet school...