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Show Show Sensation Of the Century Heralded as the "Greatest Show on Earth", with a cast of 2051 speaking roles, 200 glorified American beauties and 5000 extras, topped by the stellar triumvirate of William Powell, Myrna Loy and! Luise Rainer, "The Great Zieg- j feld'", Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer's j giant caravan of entertainment, I comes to the Firmage theatre at Milford Sunday, Monday and j Tuesday. j In preparing this sensational production whose cast is studded with such luminaries of the stage and film world as Frank Morgan, Fannie Brice, Virginia Bruce, Reginald Regi-nald Owen, Ray Bolger, Nat Pendleton Pen-dleton and Harriet Hoctor, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer duplicated the profligacy pro-fligacy of Ziagfeld himself, using sixteen reels and 15,300 foot of film. Although "The Great Ziegfeld" is not merely another motion pic- j ture revue, it has many and elabo- rate musical incidents which formi the background for the story, give authenticity to the plot and recreate re-create the atmosphere of the show; world. The story was suggested by Ziegfeld's career, his rivalries, successes and failures. iSpecial emphasis is placed on the fact that the character of Ziegfeld Zieg-feld is not intended as an accurate historical study. It has been made partly fictional, consistent with the . man himself, but consistent also with the spacious and glamorous glamor-ous legend that surrounded him. |
