Word: ziegfelds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mischa Elman, violinist, sued Florenz Ziegfeld, producer, for release of the rights to publish Soldiers of Fortune, an operetta written by Elman in 1920 under a $100,000 contract with Mr. Ziegfeld...
Club Fellow has been out of publication for two months. Under its new owners it will become fatter, will be printed on heavier stock. Artist Alberto Vargas, who once painted the portraits of 25 glittering Ziegfeld showgirls in 25 days, will do the covers. Editor John C. Schemm hopes to have Club Fellow bursting with wit, humor, new gossip, sport. Douglas Brinkley. musicomedy skitster, cousin of Nell Brinkley who draws baby-faced beauties for Hearstpapers, will conduct a column of Broadway chitchat...
Flying High. Producer George (Scandals) White, like Producer Florenz (Follies) Ziegfeld, no longer limits himself to the episodic frivolities of the revue, but now shapes the same sort of entertainment to form musicomedies. The chief attraction of Flying High is a onetime vaudeville comedian named Bert Lahr whose eyes are close together and easily crossed, who emits apelike noises and resorts to other equally obvious antics. His most successful gag is a vulgar parody of a procedure common to all medical examinations. A great many people find him very funny. His function in the plot is to act as foil...
...said about the splendor of this particular opus of Mr. Lehar that one is likely to form exaggerated expectations, especially if the previous revivals in this group have not been seen. The vastness of modern musical plays are very apt to make one forget that George White and Florenz Ziegfeld are unique to this generation. Therefore, those who know of this operetta only through the famous waltz are going to be particularly impressed with the thinness of something they expected to be rich in every form of theatrical entertainment...
...barnstorming troupe. His father had other ideas, sent him to the University of Pennsylvania, then out on the road to sell hats. But the son revolted, became a low-comedy vaudevillian, remained one for eleven years. In 1914 he was given a part in the Ziegfeld Follies. Other Wynn appearances were in The Perfect Fool, Grab Bag, Manhattan Mary...