what were the ziegfeld follies
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Ziegfeld Follies Welcome to the Ziegfeld Follies Club! The Ziegfeld Follies were... a series of elaborate theatrical productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 through 1931. They became a radio program in 1932 and 1936 as The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air. Inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris, the Ziegfeld Follies were conceived and mounted by Florenz Ziegfeld, reportedly at the suggestion of his then-wife, the entertainer Anna Held. The shows' producers were turn-of-the-twentieth-century producing titans Klaw & Erlanger. Group Rules, 1.
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- Some of the titles in it are: Looking through the Glass, Bread-and-Butterflies, Alice in the Time of the Jabberwock, Lilith in Wonderland, Automated Alice, Alice and Huck Got Married, Dodgson Mumbles (After Reviewing the Supreme Court Ruling on Virtual Child Pornography), Alice at 80, I Am Alice, and others.
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Geshundfight Geshundfight is the third episode in the first season of The Powerpuff Girls. The Amoeba Boys’ sleazy plan to stand in front of the warning sign at Townsville Park all night with rain leaves them with a disease. When they infect the Townsville's people, The Powerpuff Girls have to find the antidote.
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Seinfeld About Seinfeld. Seinfeld stars Jerry Seinfeld as a stand-up comedian whose life in New York City is made even more chaotic by his quirky group of friends who join him in wrestling with life's most perplexing, yet often trivial questions.
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- Ziegfeld girls. 1  Find this Pin and more on Ziegfeld Follies. 2  Muriel Finlay, Ziegfeld girl, by Alfred Cheney Johnston, ca. 1928 by trialsanderrors. 3  Ziegfeld Girl: Muriel Finley ~ – Performed in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1927 and the Ziegfeld musical Whoopee Photo: Alfred Cheney Johnston.
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- This month, we chat with television, film and stage character actor Fyvush Finkel about his work with The National Yiddish Theatre – Folksbiene, a nonprofit whose mission is to preserve, promote and develop Yiddish theater for current and future generations.
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- Fanny Brice as she appears on the sheet music for Rose of Washington Square, which she introduced in Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolics. Although the stage and screen hit Funny Girl is inspired by the life of singer-actress Fanny Brice, the plot is mostly delicious fiction with an occasional fact thrown in.lthough the stage and screen hit Funny Girl is inspired by the life of singer-actress Fanny Brice, the plot is mostly delicious fiction with an occasional fact thrown in.
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Yakko, Wakko, and Dot Yakko, Wakko and Dot Warner, also known as The Warner Brothers (and the Warner Sister) or The Warner Siblings, or just simply The Warners, are the three titular cartoon characters featured on the animated series Animaniacs. The trio of red-nosed Warner siblings were considered to be the stars of the ensemble of characters on the show.
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The La Follette Progressives The Progressive Party unraveled quickly following the election defeat in 1924, but it staged a comeback in the 1930s on the state level in Wisconsin where La Follette s sons, Robert Jr. and Philip, forged a successful movement that lasted until the end of World War II.
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Peg o' My Heart Peg o' My Heart  is a popular song written by Alfred Bryan and Fred Fisher. It was published on March 15, 1913 and it featured in the 1913 musical Ziegfeld Follies. The song was first performed publicly by Irving Kaufman in 1912 at The College Inn in New York City after he had stumbled across a draft of sheet music on a shelf at the Leo Feist offices.
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Arnold Ziffel The show was premised on rural American humor and featured Oliver Wendell Douglas and his wife Lisa as city-dwellers who move to the unfamiliar environment of Hooterville, a fictional farming community. Arnold was a pig, but he was treated as the son of Fred and Doris Ziffel.
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Yakko, Wakko, and Dot Animaniacs logo, featuring Yakko, Wakko and Dot plus Pinky and the Brain. Yakko, Wakko and Dot Warner, also known as The Warner Brothers (and the Warner Sister) or The Warner Siblings, or just simply The Warners, are the three titular cartoon characters featured on the animated series Animaniacs.
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Ziegfeld Follies The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 through 1931. They became a radio program in 1932 and 1936 as The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air. Inspired by the Folies Bergères of Paris, the Ziegfeld Follies were conceived and mounted by Florenz Ziegfeld, reportedly at the suggestion of his then-wife, the entertainer Anna Held. The shows' producers were turn-of-the-twentieth-century producing titans Klaw & Erlanger.
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- Like us on Facebook. For 15 years, The Far Side added a dash of irreverence to the funny pages. Offbeat, macabre, and sometimes controversial, Gary Larson’s trailblazing cartoon was a gigantic success that ran in nearly 2000 newspapers at the height of its popularity.
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'Yonkers' and 'Will Rogers' Win the Top Tony Awards Published: June 3, 1991. The Will Rogers Follies, a corn-fed, all-American extravaganza complete with rope tricks, a dog act and long-legged Ziegfeld chorines, marched off last night with six Tony Awards, including best musical of the 1990-91 Broadway season.
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- The Zollverein was the only really German action to which she can point. The Empress Frederick; a memoir Anonymous Protocol was boring our host with his views on the Zollverein.
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- Spiegelworld is a traveling and resident circus, known for its productions that feature a combination of circus, burlesque, music, cabaret style and acrobatics, set inside a Belgian-style Spiegeltent.
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List of Seinfeld minor characters 1 Jerry gets lost on the way and George and Susan end up meeting the bubble boy but finds he is a bratty spoiled kid. 2  George and Donald get in a fight over a typographical error on a Trivial Pursuit card, when it says the Moops (rather than the Moors) invaded Spain. 3  The fight results in the boy's bubble being popped.
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- WOMEN IN COMEDY BACKGROUND: MAKERS: Women In Comedy tracks the rise of women in the world of comedy, from the KdangerousL comedy of 70s sitcoms like Norman LearNs Maude to the groundbreaking women of the 1980s American comedy club boom and building to todayNs multifaceted landscape. Today, movies like Bridesmaids break box office records
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Cyd Charisse: The girl with the $1m pins who danced rings around Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire Unlike Ginger Rogers, who smiled and smiled through every dance routine, Charisse maintained a sensual seriousness which changed the look of modern dance for ever. The little girl with polio had grown into something new and wonderful.
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Web Video / Hitler Rants But no! Now bring me that asshole Fegelein! FEGELEIN! FEGELEIN, FEGELEIN! The Hitler Rants (also known as Hitler Reacts, Hitler Parodies or Downfall Parodies) are Memetic Mutations involving fanmade series of Gag Subs involving Hitler from Downfall, often ranting about several topics.
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- The Blitzkrieg was the main German Military tactic for quick success on The Battle Fields in 1939, 1940 and early 1941.The term Blitzkrieg literally means lighting war it was invented by German Field marshal Heinz Guderian and author of Auctung Panzer!eload the page to try again! Press Cmd-0 to reset your zoom. Press Ctrl-0 to reset your zoom. It looks like your browser might be zoomed in or out. Your browser needs to be zoomed to a normal size to record audio.
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Poggendorff Illusion In his letter, Zöllner described an illusion he noticed on a fabric design in which parallel lines intersected by a pattern of short diagonal lines appear to diverge (Zöllner's illusion). Pondering this illusion, Poggendorff noticed and described another illusion resulting from the apparent misalignment of a diagonal line; an illusion which today bears his name (IllusionWorks).
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Remember the doomed yet wonderful 'Seinfeld' finale No wonder why [people] would dislike it.”. In important ways, though, the last Seinfeld, simply titled “The Finale,” was true to the characters and the tone of the show. “No learning, no hugging,” had always been the show’s unofficial motto, and David stuck to his guns until the end.
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Lillian Lorraine Lillian Lorraine. Lillian Lorraine (January 1, 1892 – April 17, 1955) was an American stage and screen actress of the 1910s and 1920s, best known for her beauty and for being perhaps the most famous Ziegfeld Girl in the Broadway revues Ziegfeld Follies during the 1910s.
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Screwball comedy film One subgenre of screwball is known as the comedy of remarriage, in which characters divorce and then remarry one another (The Awful Truth (1937), The Philadelphia Story (1940)).