FLORENZ ZIEGFELD, JR.
1907 copy of Frederick E. Day's London, signed by theatre producer Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. as President of the Chicago Musical College. Ziefeld produced the first of his Ziegfeld Follies the year this was published.
Typed note on sheet music signed "F Ziegfeld" as President of the Chicago Musical College on cover. Pencil notations in unknown hand. Color cover with b/w pages, 3 pages including cover, 11x14, 3 sheets, front and verso. Copy of London by Frederick E. Day, revised and edited by Emil Liebling. ©1907 Lyon and Healy of Chicago, Illinois. Score is separate from cover. Typed note in full: "'A pleasing and delightful Piano Piece.'" During the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, Ziegfeld (1867-1932, born in Chicago, Illinois) managed Sandow, the strong man. In 1896, he turned to theatrical management. His promotion of a French beauty, Anna Held, using press releases about her milk baths, brought her fame and set a pattern of star-making through publicity. Held and Ziegfeld were married from 1897 until they divorced in 1913. In 1907, Ziegfeld produced his first revue, The Follies of 1907, modeled on the Folies-Bergère of Paris but less risqué. The New York revue's combination of semi-nudity, pageantry and comedy was repeated successfully for 23 more years in the Ziegfeld Follies, until the Great Depression ended the annual spectacles. All pages except cover are silked. Lightly toned, soiled, stained and stained. Paper loss on cover, which touches signature in two places. Rounded and missing corners. Edges are discolored and torn. Cover is lightly chipped. Otherwise in fine condition.