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Died. Helen Lee Worthing, fiftyish, faded onetime Ziegfeld Follies dancer who was once pressagented as "the most beautiful girl in the world"; of seconal poisoning; in Los Angeles. After a few parts in silent movies, she married a Negro physician, Dr. Eugene Nelson, was dropped by the studios, eventually moved on to drink, dope and sanitariums...
...Reminiscent of the Ziegfeld era was Broadway's revival of the musical that starred Marilyn Miller: 1. Girl Crazy. 2. Rose Marie. 3. Roberta. 4. Sally. 5. The Ziegfeld Follies...
Sally (music by Jerome Kern; lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse and Clifford Grey; book by Guy Bolton; produced by Hunt Stromberg Jr. and William Berney) constitutes almost as aromatic a memory of the Ziegfeld era as the Follies themselves. Anyone seeing it on Broadway last week must have guessed, if he did not know, that it had once been a great hit (1920-35). But though Sally still has an air, it shows...
Allowed by the court to ex-Ziegfeld Girl Gladys Glad, out of the estate left by her late husband, Hollywood Producer Mark Hellinger: $4,000 a month, for living expenses...
...Ruth Foster Froemming, 50, a former Ziegfeld Follies girl, filed for mayor of Milwaukee. Her slogan: "Every church your temple, the world your country, and every man your brother." Said she: "I'm not hell bent on winning...