“Helen Barnes, ‘Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic’, Danse de Follies, New Amsterdam Roof”
“The Ziegfeld midnight frolics was an annual review playingat New York City’s New Amsterdam Roof that was produced from at least 1912 through 1929.”
“Lost in the Desert: the sensational event of the year”
c1900 by The Seer Print, N.Y.
“Then you die together.”
Everything about this is so funny to me.
Above: The Roxy Theatre in 1927. An enormous movie palace built in New York City during the 20s, it had its grand opening on March 11, 1927 with the premiere of Gloria Swanson’s new film The Love of Sunya. Swanson both produced and starred in the movie.
Below: Gloria Swanson standing in the ruins of the Roxy Theatre after demolition (wearing $170,000 worth of jewelry, bless her heart!), October 1960.
