Word: ziegfelds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. opens his movie career barking for Sandow at Chicago's World's Fair in 1883, and dies broke on Broadway amid souvenirs of his, the finest shows of the era. His life crosses Little Egypt, Klaw and Erlanger, Stanford White, Harry K. Thaw, Lillian Russell, and started on their way such stars as Fannie Brice, Anna Held, Jerome Kern, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers, Billie Burke, Harriet Hoctor, Ray Bolger, and the glorified American girl. Revolutionizing the New York stage he began by copying foreign revues and built successively his follies, his shows on the roof garden...
...Great Ziegfeld" is the pack in mad magnificence and a great show. M.G.M. determined to memorialize the famous producer in his own lavish style, and the lavishly lushly extravagant sets must have set them back over a million dollars. The movie is a musical review, a biography, and a history of Broadway wound on one reel...
...life. We lived next door to a theatre manager, and he put me in a "Kid act" at the tender ago of 11. Gus Edwards saw me there, signed me up, and I've been on the stage ever since. I was in the last "Follies" that Mr. Ziegfeld produced, "Calling All Stars", "At Home Abroad" when Eleanor Powell was forced to leave, and now this...
Music's great human-interest story ten years ago was that of Mary Lewis, jolly blonde soprano who had run away from foster parents in Little Rock, Ark., attained the Ziegfeld Follies and suddenly thereafter the Metropolitan Opera. After her rags-to-riches headlines pretty Mary Lewis was quickly forgotten by most Manhattan music writers. She married German Basso Michael Bohnen, soon divorced him for wealthy Robert L. Hague, oil and shipping tycoon...
...roof of the Hotel Bradofrd, presenting the Ziegfeld Follies star, Jena Sargent, in the aristocrat of floor shows "Autumn Days." Fifty gorgeous "Boots McKenna girls" are dazzling. Seven course diner, $1.50. Never a cover charge. For reservations call...