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...from Syracuse who founded Broadway's theatrical empire; of a stroke; in his Manhattan penthouse atop Sardi's 44th Street restaurant. In the partnership, Older Brother Sam was the producer and Middle Brother Lee the businessman; "J.J." touched both sides of the business, playing backer to Florenz Ziegfeld, producing more than 500 shows, and sending Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, Marilyn Miller and Bert Lahr on their way to stardom. Until 1956, when the U.S. Government settled an antitrust suit, the Shuberts controlled half of all U.S. legitimate theaters; the business (24 theaters in Manhattan and four other cities...
...whole generation has grown up since William Powell was a matinee idol noted for his sophisticated suavity in The Thin Man, The Great Ziegfeld and My Man Godfrey. Many of today's moviegoers scarcely know him. But less surprising than his fading reputation is the actor's actual survival. Last week in Palm Springs, Calif., Powell observed the 25th anniversary of his operation for cancer of the rectum. And with the same smooth ease that made him a hit on the screen, Powell spoke frankly of an illness and a treatment that most patients and their relatives find...
...movies, formed his own charter airline service, traveled through some two dozen countries as ambassador at large for the U.N. Children's Fund, gained some weight and lost some hair. As he proved last week at the start of a month-long stand at Manhattan's Ziegfeld Theater, he has kept all of his charm...
...calf, being 69 years old, is now a sacred cow. Jack Benny has returned to Broadway for the first time since he left Earl Carroll's Vanities in 1931 and went into radio. There he stood last week-in the redecorated, reopened, reclaimed-from-television, traditionalistic Ziegfeld Theater-telling the same jokes that he has been reworking for 30 years. Self-mitigation stories, each successive one is as fresh and original as an ocean wave; but the individual jokes are unimportant in themselves-it is their cumulative effect that has created this wonderful character that almost everyone would like...
Show of the Week (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A pocket biography of Broadway Producer Flo Ziegfeld. Repeat. Color...