Back home in in Chicago, the ambitious young showman had launched his career by managing a troupe of dancing ducks, and he had done all right with the ducks until the do-gooders discovered that the ...

During a discussion after the Friday night performance of “Facing Mekka,” choreographer Rennie Harris listed one of his major boyhood influences as movie musicals: specifically, “The Ziegfeld Follies.

Whoopee. “Here is another of Mr. Ziegfeld’s sumptuous durbars, a large and glittering ceremonial with Mr. Cantor at the comic centre of its parades. . . . The celebration earns the right to be called ...

Legendary showman Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., impresario behind what became known as "Ziegfeld Follies," was born on March 21, 1867 (possibly 1869), in Chicago. Ziegfeld’s first entertainment triumph ...

As it must to all men, Death came last week to Florenz Ziegfeld, 63, master showman. Stricken with bronchial pneumonia, he had gone west to recover, planning to stage his Follies in Los Angeles during ...

Dorothy Wegman Raphaelson, 100, one of the last surviving Ziegfeld Girls who performed in Florenz Ziegfeld’s “Follies,” died Nov. 7 at her home in New York City of natural causes of aging. She was ...

"I have added six new songs and two ballets to 'Rosalie' since the opening night in Boston," were the words of Florenz Ziegfeld as he left the South Station Saturday night for New York, where "Rosalie ...

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