Word: ziegfeld
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...profiles the last really Fun Mayor of Fun City, Jimmy Walker. Broadway's unceasing penchant for self-celebration will provide a whole clutch of musicals, among them Hocus-Pocus (Harry Houdini) and W.C. (Fields could have thought of a better title). The Girls Upstairs is a tale of Ziegfeld Girls who have passed their prime, and Shubert Alley is about the three brothers who gave Broadway some of its more pungent history...
Stage-door Janies have always been more demonstrative than stage-door Johnnies. Juvenal railed bitterly against flirtatious Roman ladies in whose eyes any gladiator, however ugly, was "transformed into a Hyacinthus." No Ziegfeld girl ever inspired a male reaction remotely comparable to the mass hysteria of Sinatra's swooners in the 1940s or Elvis Presley's frantic fanatics in the 1950s. Such adulatory demonstrations were mild, however, compared with those of a new and even more liberated breed of female hero-worshipers. They are the "groupies." Their heroes are rock musicians-and their worship knows no bounds...
Died. Frank Skinner, 69, Hollywood composer, who wrote orchestrations for more than 30 films, including The Great Ziegfeld (1936), The Magnificent Obsession (1954), and Away All Boats (1956), of cancer; in Hollywood...
Died. George White, 78, theatrical producer, whose flashy, fleshy Scandals vied with Ziegfeld's Follies and Earl Carroll's Vanities as the top Broadway attraction of the 1920s and '30s; of leukemia; in Hollywood. White introduced such future stars as Kate Smith, Ray Bolger, Rudy Vallee and Eleanor Powell to the Great White Way-which he always claimed was named...
...injuries suffered when struck by an automobile; in Miami Beach. Billed as "the Tiffany Songsters," Van and Schenck harmonized such tuneful memories as My Melancholy Baby and All She'd Say Was "Umh Hum" in a top-hat-and-cane act that made them a mainstay of the Ziegfeld Follies before it all ended when Schenck died...