Word: ziegfelds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Carlyle Blackwell, 49, old-time film actor; from Leah ("Queen of Diamonds") Barnato Blackwell, daughter of the late Diamond Tycoon Barney Barnato; in Reno. Six hours later he married Avonne Taylor, onetime Ziegfeld beauty, divorced wife of Thomas F. Manville...
...insert the Park Avenue element into the proceedings. As in The New Yorkers, in which she was also associated with uncouth Mr. Durante, she does not have much to do except feed him a few lines. Lively Lupe Velez, having abandoned most of the Mexican accent she affected in Ziegfeld's Hot-Cha, spends most of her time shaking herself at Funnyman Durante, which calls forth from him the bitter remark: "Now they're makin' me a juvenile...
Although Miss Le Gallienne had never done better business, the downtown playhouse abandoned repertory, closed its doors. Uptown to Florenz Ziegfeld's old New Amsterdam Theatre went the Repertory's Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass. Explanation for this change in policy brought forth a hitherto unknown fact about the organization: even a capacity week ($9,500 gross) could not pay the Repertory's bills. For years a number of public-spirited citizens have been making up the $8,000 monthly deficit, because Producer Le Gallienne would rather close up shop than raise...
...famed Brooklyn bullfighter, appears in one exciting scene, a real bull fight in which the death was omitted by request of the S. P. C. A. It is the ambition of Producer Samuel Goldwyn to make his cinema comedies resemble in opulence the musical shows of the late Florenz Ziegfeld. This picture cost about $1,400,000. A chorus which is probably the handsomest ever assembled for the cinema appears twice: in the dormitory of a girls' school, then in a Mexican cabaret where Cantor hides under a table and puts on black face with the cork from a champagne...
Died. Rosalie de Hez Ziegfeld, 84, mother of the late Producer Florenz Ziegfeld; in Chicago...