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Ziegfeld

Florenz . 1869--1932, US theatrical producer, noted for his series of extravagant revues (1907--31), known as the Ziegfeld Follies
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She takes on the great Ziegfeld himself, with all the persistence of a street trader intent on selling you a mechanical toy, and wins him over.
Ziegfeld, the eminent Broadway impresario of the day, immediately choreographed a pogo routine into his show.
9 world premiere of Paramount's "Zoolander 2," an event that almost assuredly would have unfolded at the Ziegfeld. Instead, guests made their way uptown to Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, where New York Film Festival screenings take place, often without food.
When it opens in the fall of 2017, The Ziegfeld Ballroom will be Midtown Manhattan's only freestanding, street-level event space.
<B>LADY DUFF GORDON AND FLORENZ ZIEGFELD: THE INVENTION OF THE COUTURE MODEL-SHOWGIRL</B>
THE STORY: After her parents send her away to Jazz-Age New York City, Evie O'Neill--whose gift of seeing things about people when she touches an object they own landed her in hot water back home--becomes captivated with the city's speakeasies, movie palaces, and Ziegfeld Follies.
LED-GENDSRobert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham, son of the band's late drummer John, together at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York
Throughout his lifetime Ziegfeld will produce numerous Follies, which he will model after the Folies-Bergere of Paris.
It was three or four years later that I learned of Ziegfeld's earlier involvement with the Owatonna Art Education Project, an attempt to develop new materials and methods for art education.
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