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...Vogue assembled the twelve most photographed models of the last decade, called the resultant group portrait "an Omnibus of Beauty" (see cut). As current replacements of the Ziegfeld and Gibson girls, said Vogue, "these twelve share a look of non-adolescence...
...took steps to have her two-year-old daughter (by Orson Welles) made a corporation director in mother's new producing firm. Actor Wallace Ford beat a drunken driving rap by explaining that he drove the way he did because his whiskers kept blowing in his face. Ex-Ziegfeld Beauty Boots Mallory, arrested for drunken driving, was freed to await trial. Actor Lionel Stander & wife filed petitions in bankruptcy, listing assets of $3,150, liabilities of $33,772.77. Actor Lawrence (Dillinger) Tierney, who had been spending his weekends in jail for boozing, fought his brother in the street over...
Readers of syndicated Columnist Billy Rose got some inside dope that confirmed an old suspicion. Showman Rose, noted as a judge of beauty, confessed that "all this stuff about my being a picker of pretties is loo-proof malarkey. And the same goes for Ziegfeld, Carroll, White and Goldwyn. . . . Any boy who likes girls can pick them." How to do it for a show: "You put an ad in the paper. . . . Several hundred gals show up. . . . First you eliminate the impossibles. . . . You ask the remaining girls to parade. . . . What do you look for? The same things you look for when...
Once in the Ziegfeld Follies he discovered Comedian Ed Wynn making faces at an audience from beneath the billiard table over which he was brandishing his famed bent cue. He conked Wynn with the cue, knocked him cold, beamed at the applause and went on without interruption...
...subjects assumed that the book board would have the same high critical standards as the Memphis Board of Motion Picture Censors which turned thumbs down on Brewster's Millions because Negro Comedian Rochester had an important role, excised scenes from the Ziegfeld Follies of 1946 which involved Negro Actress Lena Horne, and banned The Outlaw, starring sexy Jane Russell, because of "too much shooting...