MAJESTIC THEATRE.
"The Great Ziegfeld." In "The Great ZiegfeKV' commencing at 10.45 tonight at the Majestic Theatre, motion pictures have picked up the torch where the late Floronz Ziegfeld laid it down. "The Great Ziegfeld" has everything that a great musical picture should have. It has. in the life of Ziegfeld. a gripping dramatic story. In its musical. numbers, never before produced on such a scale of grandeur, it has many of the most dazzling scenes ever seen in pictures. It has William Powell as Ziegfeld, Myrna Loy as Billy Burke, and Louise Rainer as Anna Helt. Then there are Virginia Bruce as Ziegfeld's greatest glorified modern girl, Frank Morgan as his rival producer, Nat Pendleton as Sandow, Reginald Owen as Ziggy's manager, Fannie Brice as herself, Ray Bslgcr and his amazing dancing feet, Harriet Hoctor, and hordes of beautiful girls. The story opens in Ziegfeld's youth in the dazzling Chicago World's Fair of 1893. It, progresses as Ziegfeld himself progressed, amassing foP> tunes, to lose them and build other fortunes. But pKvavr in foreground are the spectacular Ziegfeld production! and his amazingJy beautiful showgirls.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 17, 21 January 1937, Page 5
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