Word: ziegfeld
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what he asked for: modern, medium-sized opera. On Broadway, where Gian-Carlo Menotti's terrifying but tuneful The Medium (TIME, June 30, 1947) was holding spooky seances for sellout audiences, Benjamin Britten's pocket-sized opera, The Rape of Lucretia, opened in Billy Rose's Ziegfeld Theater...
Died. Mary Eaton, 46, Ziegfeld Follies star of the '20s (a Broadway hit at 16, she also starred in Eddie Cantor's 1923 Kid Boots'); of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles...
...there was no mistaking his interest in Marilyn Miller, the loveliest Ziegfeld girl of them all. "I would prefer," wrote Billie, "to think that Flo was merely fascinated by Marilyn Miller, but ... he idolized...
...merely laughed and carried me upstairs in his arms." On other occasions, Billie screamed, threw china, tore draperies off windows. During these spells, Ziegfeld regarded her quietly and smoked long cigars. "The trouble with you, Billie," he once said, "is that when you accuse me, you always pick the wrong girl...
...reached in his pocket and handed me a [diamond] bracelet . . . which must have cost $20,000. I snatched it from him and flung it into a corner. Flo didn't flick an eye to see where it went, but I did, and Patricia Ziegfeld still wears it on very formal occasions...