“The Great Ziegfeld” An Extravagant Musical

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 40, 17 February 1937, Page 11 (Supplement)

“The Great Ziegfeld” An Extravagant Musical

stage magnificence filmed WITH TALENTED CAST (Regent: Screening Saturday). , In "Tlie Great Ziegfeld” motion pictures have picked up the toren i where the late Florenz Ziegfeld | laid it down and have succeeded in I out-Ziegfelding the great Ziegfeld himself. I "The Great Ziegfeld” has every- ( ! thing that a great musical picture I should have. It has, iu the life ot | Ziegfeld, a most gripping and perfect 1 dramatic story. In its musical numbers, never before produced on such a scale of grandeur, it has many of the I most dazzling scenes ever seen in pic- | tures. j In entertainment alone it is unexcelled. First, there are Wililain Powell *aa Ziegfeld, Myrna Loy as Billie Burke and Luise Rainer as Anna Held. Then there are Virginia Bruce as Ziegfeld's greatest glorified Modern Girl, Frank Morgan as his rival producer, Nat Pendleton as Sandow, Reginald Owen Ziggy’s manager, Fannie Brice as herself, Ray Bolger aud his amazing dancing feet, Harriet Doctor, ana hordes ot the most beautiful girls ever to smile at you from tho screeu. The story opens in Ziegfeld’s youth in the dazzling Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, It progresses as Ziegfeld himself progressed, massing fortunes, to lose them and build other fortunes. But always in tho foreground aro tho spectacular Ziegfeld productions and his amazingly beautiful showgirls. The dance numbers never before have been equalled. The direction of Robert Z. Leonard place him among the king? of directors and tho photography by Ollie Marsh and George Folsey it a historical masterpiece