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...Ziegfeld Follies (music by Ray Henderson; lyrics by Jack Yellen; produced by the Shuberts in association with Alfred Bloomingdale and Lou Walters) is Shubert flapdoodle. In 1934 and 1936 the Shuberts borrowed this lustrous title to some effect, but this time they have thrown it away on a completely lackluster show. Alternating undistinguished sketches with indistinguishable tunes, gaudy spectacles with soggy satire, young legs with old gags, handsome clothes with jitterbug clatter, it is just the Shuberts' old Winter Garden formula to cop the summer trade...
...song writers, gag writers, secretaries, itinerant fellow-players, men on leave. Soon she and Oliver may commence a new weekly radio show which will enlist other American showfolk justly beloved of Britons : Frances Day, top-money musicomedy star who graduated from the Texas Guinan night club chorus; Ziegfeld Follies alumna Dorothy Dickson, Actress Claire (Gay Divorce) Luce, Greta Nissen, gargantuan Xylophonist Teddy Brown, and freckle-spattered dramatic Comedienne Constance Cummings...
...famed dance teacher of the '205; in Manhattan. Once a ragtime pianist, he was 28 when he directed his first show (the Four Cohans in The Governor's Son). He looked like a banker, directed like a mule skinner. He helped the Shuberts, Klaw & Erlanger, and Florenz Ziegfeld pretty up their musicals; taught stage technique to such greats as Marilyn Miller, the Astaires, Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson; was thrice a millionaire, once a bankrupt...
Producer George White, once the nearest thing to a successor to Florenz Ziegfeld, filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy in Los Angeles. The Scandals man was sure that he owed more than $100,000 to certain creditors, listed others with the notation "amount due unknown." Among his assets: a Rolls-Royce standing idle in storage...
...change of seats, a change of viewpoint. It was the end of an era. Long, lean Songwriter Gene Buck had been since 1925 chieftain of ASCAP, the clangorous music-writing clan that embraces everything from Tin Pan Alley to Rachmaninoff. A friend of Victor Herbert, for 20 years Florenz Ziegfeld's right-hand man, writer of 500 lyrics (Hello, Frisco!, Tulip Time), Buck served ASCAP from 1925 to 1929 without pay. Later he drew a $50,000-a-year salary, which he voluntarily cut to $35,000 a year ago, after ASCAP entered its losing music war with...