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...Philadelphia Ethel Borden, socialite daughter of Mrs. J. Borden Harriman of Washington, D. C., became so ill she could not, for a time, continue her first role as a Broadway actress?that of a maid in The Truth Game, with Billie Burke. Substituted for her was Patricia Ziegfeld, 14, daughter of Actress Burke & Producer Florenz Ziegfeld, who happened to be visiting her mother during a school holiday...
...Purcell-Jones, apparently another member of Britain's languid gentry, contributed a roomful of slightly improper drawings of ladies and gentlemen in fancy dress in which he combined the manners of Aubrey Beardsley, Botticelli, Benozzo Gozzoli and Florenz Ziegfeld. His pictures bore such titles as: La Chevalier (sic) de la Jarretière, Lady Woudnaught, Sir Adam Coudnaught, Odalisque, Lady Couch. Prince Henry and his cousin-countess showed views of France, Africa, Egypt and New York, painfully wrought...
Mary Hay's father was Brig.-General Frank Merrill Caldwell, U. S. A. He was stationed at Fort Bliss, Tex. when she was bom 29 years ago. She was 17, spry and "cute" when she stepped into the chorus of Florenz Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic. In 1920 she married Cinemactor Richard Barthelmess, and the same year her charm and intelligence got her a part in Mr. Ziegfeld's Sally. The Hayday came in 1923, when she starred in her own show, Mary Jane McKane, and when she and spindleshanked Clifton Webb sang and danced to "Two Little...
...group of friends gave Commander Evangeline Booth $5,000 to bid up and buy in the ball that was used for the kickoff, inscribed by President Hoover. At a convivial party on the St. Regis roof that night, to which Producers Florenz Ziegfeld and Earl Carroll sent beauteous shows girls for each & every player on the two teams, the ball was presented to Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen, who had followed up Sport Editor Paul Gallico's lead in arranging the game...
...then became a chorus girl, and it was not until two years later that I learned I had a good voice. After hearing me over the radio, the phonograph people asked me to make records. Well, it wasn't long then until Ziegfeld heard me, and put me in his shows...