Dust jacket notes: Packed with incident, this book on Florenz Ziegfeld, through which pass such people as Will Rogers, W. C. Fields, Marilyn Miller, Bert Williams, Anna Held, Ed Wynn, Fannie Brice, Joseph Urban, Jerome Kern and a great many others famous in the theatrical world, is just the sort of book you will like to browse through, recalling the extravagance and glamour of the Ziegfeld era. Eddie Cantor's book has the movement, the sprightliness and humor that can be expected from one of today's most famous entertainers. There is, in addition, a unique collection of pictures reproduced from photographs by Alfred Cheney Johnson, who was intimately associated with the Ziegfeld productions and photographed all of the Ziegfeld girls since 1917. Above all, Ziegfeld was known for his girls; this collection of portraits of seven principals and twenty-five show girls will be an enduring record of the pulchritude of the girls and taste of the man whose name is still synonymous with the acme of feminine beauty....
