Word: ziegfelds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Clifford Odets, 30, proletarian playwright (Waiting for Lefty) and film scenarist (The General Died at Dawn); and Luise Rainer, 25, Viennese cinemactress (Escapade, The Great Ziegfeld); in Brentwood, Calif...
...carat Hope Diamond and six diamond bracelets, Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean (Father Struck It Rich) revived her celebrated Washington New Year's Eve Party in honor of her son. John Randolph ("Jock") McLean, who will be 21 next month. Son Jock, his guest Patricia Ziegfeld. the late Florenz Ziegfeld's daughter, and 1.000 other merrymakers danced around to two bands in two ballrooms, drank 120 gal. of champagne. 55 gal. of Scotch whiskey...
...real estate deals which made him unique among working newspapermen. In these operations Mr. Hearst was also soon involved. In 1926, Mr. Brisbane built the Ritz Tower apartment hotel, then the tallest (540 ft.) residential building in Manhattan, later selling it to his chief. Together they built the elaborate Ziegfeld Theatre, the Warwick Hotel across the street, took over other hotels, apartment buildings, beach properties. Mused William Randolph Hearst: "Arthur comes to me all the time with some wonderful plan to make money, but when I examine it, I find the profits are to be divided 90% for Arthur...
...lions' cage, flapping her cape in the faces of five large lions owned by a Dallas veterinarian named Nobel Hamiter (see cut). The lethargy of its bestial stooges made "Beauty & the Beast" less titillating than Billy Rose had expected, and it was soon replaced by a "Ziegfeld Milk Bath." Dr. Hamiter took his lions off to Chicago to become part of a vaudeville troupe called Circus de Paris. A 22-year-old chorus girl named Gladys Cote volunteered to replace Dancer Nevell. The act was renamed "Bride of the Lion...
William Powell plays expertly the vibrant and extravagant Ziegfeld, but Louise Rainer walks off with the show, heavy and expensive as it is. As Anna Held her charm and appeal make Myrna Loy and the most glamorous chorus M.G.M. could collect seem drab. The beautiful, tempestuous little French singer is alternately sunny and gay and llystericat but her line as she watches her beloved husband, Ziegfeld, kiss a drunken chorine, is a real heart breaker--"You might at least have closed the door." Loy is competent as Billie Burke and Frank Morgan is at top form in playing Ziegfeld...