Word: ziegfelds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have obtained its funds from fraudulent stock transactions, chiefly at the expense of credulous Catholics. Nicknamed "Dinty," Funnyman Dowling calls his 4-ft.-10-in. wife "Peanut," "Snook," "Brat," considers her "a great artist." She is the only woman whose name has appeared in lights above that of Ziegfeld Follies: Their income, from stage, screen and radio enterprises, is augmented by Funnyman Dowling's holdings in a Pasadena, Calif. sausage factory...
Sirs: I have read with interest in your issue of June 22, 1931, an article deploring the fact that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad had no rail connection with New York City, and for that reason it was intimated it could not carry Mr. Florenz Ziegfeld's 70 "glorified" girls to Pittsburgh to have a try out in that city before the Follies opened their show in New York. It is perfectly proper and within Mr. Ziegfeld's rights for him to use any means of transportation for his company he may select. However, I would like...
...imply the movement could have been made better by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, or that Mr. Ziegfeld would have been more pleased in using it. I am asserting it could have been made just as well...
Sirs: In your review of the Ziegfeld Follies, July 13 issue, you refer to the Britton Gang Orchestra as "breaking peanut brittle violins...
...Under her right eye, Eleanor Holm wears a waterproof beauty patch. She is so pretty that Ziegfeld offered her a job in the Follies which her mother persuaded her not to take...