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Showman Rose forthwith called a press conference in his plush office overlooking the stage of the Ziegfeld Theater. More than 20 newsmen responded. Billy opened by saying he was "stunned and bewildered." He had never intended to make that dirty affidavit public, he said, because he knew he could win his case without those "obscenities." It was Mrs. Bernie who had made the affidavit public property by filing her charge against...
...common and uncommon sense on national and international affairs. (Samples: "Our foreign deals are like an open book, especially a checkbook"; "The U.S. never lost a war or won a peace.") To bolster its just-folks plot, the movie throws in a couple of production numbers from the Ziegfeld Follies, in which Rogers starred. But it is in Will Rogers Jr.'s performance that his father comes most alive on the screen: the familiar slouch with hands jammed in pockets, the unruly forelock, the sheepish grin, the shambling wisecracks delivered in his famous gumchewing drawl...
...valuable collection of antique silver by Paul Storr, silversmith to George III. Things like these needed a man's protection. Rose said he would also like to pick up some of his winter coats and suits, and furthermore he needed the house in order to entertain properly. His Ziegfeld Theater apartment, to which he is exiled (and where blonde Joyce Matthews, ex-wife of Milton Berle, slashed her wrists in a fit of melancholy last summer) "is much more a business office than a place to entertain graciously or adequately...
...crazy," said Gus, "he scream and jump overboard." Sam Luttrell covered his wife and son with his trench coat, lay on top of them to shield them from the freezing spray. On the fourth morning, shivering in a sweatshirt and dungarees, Kathleen Luttrell, who had once danced in the Ziegfeld Follies, died. Her husband did not last long after. "The little boy Sammy," Gus said sobbing, ". . . all last night he cry and cry for his mamma and papa. He lay on them...
Died. Marion Benda, 45, Ziegfeld Follies girl of the '20s, long rumored to be the mysterious Woman in Black who made a pilgrimage to the tomb of Screen Lover Rudolph Valentino each year on the anniversary of his death; by her own hand (sleeping pills, on her seventh attempt); in Hollywood. She claimed to have gone dancing with Valentino the night he was fatally stricken with an attack of peritonitis and gastric ulcers, afterwards made the headlines by announcing that they had been married and were the parents of a baby girl. Later she did marry 1) a Hollywood...