Word: ziegfelds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
Post-War Broadway blazed with such names-in-lights as Ziegfeld, George White, Dillingham, Hammerstein, Carroll. Of a warm summer night buyers from the corn-belt flocked with their women to the New Amsterdam roof; winter after winter the Music Box ground out its medley of tunes...
They have struck oil in the theatre often enough, but there have been a few spills. There was Betsy, the flop they did for Ziegfeld. "Ziegfeld should have been a movie producer. He didn't know the first thing about music, yet he constantly butted in on the scores." Ten Cents a Dance, the biggest plum they got out of another Ziegfeld show, Simple Simon, they "practically slipped in over Ziegfeld's head...
Died. Gustav A. Weidhaas, 62, Broadway's No. 1 creator of stage "props" and trick effects; of heart disease; in Bronxville, N. Y. Sometime master handyman for Belasco, Ziegfeld, Joe Cook and Billy Rose, Weidhaas manufactured such varied marvels as the dragon for the Metropolitan Opera's Siegfried, jellied lobster (which would bounce) for Dinner at Eight, pet snakes for You Can't Take It With...