Monday, November 26, 2012

From Chic Silber #2


Billy Rose - 1932 Duesenberg Model J Phaeton

Posted by Buckles at 11/26/2012 05:55:00 AM

4 comments:

John Herriott said...

I recall as ayoung man reading Billy Roses newspaper column entitled," Billy Rose Diamond Horseshoe". After his New York Caberat.johnny

26 November, 2012 07:10
Ole Whitey said...

Billy Rose is the man who remodeled the New York Hippodrome on 6th Avenue for his production of "Jumbo," making it such an ideal venue for the Cole show in 1937.

26 November, 2012 10:39
Chic Silber said...


I believe it was Anna May & Sid for

the filming of "Jumbo" but which

elephant did the stage production

26 November, 2012 13:28
Chic Silber said...


In 1938, he opened Billy Rose's
Diamond Horseshoe, a nightclub in
New York's Times Square in the
basement of the Paramount Hotel.
It closed in 1951.

From 1949 until 1955, Rose owned &
operated the Ziegfeld Theater that
was built by Florenz Ziegfeld in
1927 at the corner of 6th Avenue &
54th Street. During Rose's time,
the theater housed four musicals
and five plays.
That theater was torn down in 1966
& a new Ziegfeld Theater is a film
house which remains as the largest
single screen theater in New York.

From 1959 until his death in 1966,
he also owned & operated the Billy
Rose Theater, which was built as
the National Theater in 1921.
During his time the theater housed
four plays, one musical, one revue
three ballets, and twenty-nine
concert performances.
After his death, the theater kept
his name, and remained owned by his
estate until 1978, when it was
renamed the Trafalger Theater.
In 1980 it became the Nederlander
Theater which is it's current name.

26 November, 2012 14:55

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