Directed by Charles Walters
Filmed in Panavision
Billy Rose's Jumbo, 1962 by LenhillAdvancedLite
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Directed by Charles Walters
Filmed in Panavision
La maqueta, con un área de 2000 m², fue encargada en 1966 por Hans Kroch, el dueño del Holyland Hotel, en memoria de su hijo, Yaakov, un soldado de las FDI que murió en la guerra israelí de Independencia en 1948. Fue diseñada por el historiador y geógrafo israelí Michael Avi Yonah a partir de escritos de Flavio Josefo y otras fuentes históricas e incluye una réplica del Templo de Herodes. En 2006, fue reubicado en el extremo sur del Jardín de Arte Billy Rose —un jardín de esculturas— perteneciente al Museo de Israel. Para llevar a cabo el traslado, el modelo fue dividido en alrededor de mil piezas para más tarde ser vuelto a reensamblar. El hotel Holyland gastó 3.5 millones de dólares en dicha operación
Before Google was a search engine, Barney Google was a comic strip character created by cartoonist Billy DeBeck (1890-1942). The strip became especially popular in 1922 after DeBeck introduced Spark Plug, Barney's broken-down racehorse.
The "Barney Google Fox Trot," a song with the refrain, "Barney Google with the goo, goo, googly eyes," became a hit when it was published as sheet music in 1923. The song's popularity continued with later recordings by the Andrews Sisters, Spike Jones, and many others.
For the full sheet music, see Barney Google Fox Trot in the Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music.
For a remarkable vintage photo of a musician holding a copy of this sheet music, see anyjazz65's photo of The Band.
Barney Google
Fox Trot
Song by Billy Rose and Con Conrad, by permission of DeBeck, creator of Barney Google.
Jerome H. Remick & Co., New York, Detroit.
Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection [AR406-6 06/05/1937 #1060; scan 10008584]
On June 5, 1937, Frontier Fiesta Sweetheart contest entrants from over 65 cities posed for publicity stills. The winner received a featured role in a Casa Mañana production, a chance at a Hollywood movie contract, and publicity for her hometown. Each entrant received a roundtrip to Fort Worth for the finals competition and an opportunity to audition for the revue. After arriving in Fort Worth, the contestants shopped for the “most bewitching bathing suits on the market, grabbed a few winks of beauty sleep, made a date with the hairdresser and experimented with eye shadow.”
The competition took place in the Hotel Texas Crystal Ballroom. Sole judge Billy Rose made the final selection, crowning the winner “Texas’ Fairest” and giving her the leading role in his production. Reporters termed the famed Broadway producer the “bravest man” as judging the Texas Sweetheart competition alone was “a feat of greater courage than the Dive of Flaming Death on the midway” due to the large number of Texas beauties competing. In the end, Temple resident Grey Downs took home the title of “Texas Sweetheart No. 1.” Nineteen years old with chestnut hair and blue-green eyes, Downs’ happy school-girl laugh, and gleaming smile helped her beat out the competition. Five other contestants won show-girl roles on the spot. Downs succeeded Faye Cotton, the 1936 Texas Sweetheart from Borger.
The 1937 Frontier Fiesta was the continuation of Fort Worth’s Texas Centennial celebration. That year, showman Billy Rose succeeded his 1936 production of Jumbo with Melody Lane, featuring eight popular composers and their music, including Fort Worth's Euday Bowman and his Twelfth Street Rag. The Frontier Fiesta venue is now the heart of Fort Worth's museum district, including the current sites of the Kimbell Art Museum, Amon Carter Museum, and the Will Rogers complex.
The University of Texas at Arlington Library offers a rich and diverse collection of materials on the history of Texas and the Southwest. Each week, readers get a glimpse of the past with an image from Special Collections. (817) 272-3393; library.uta.edu/special-collections. Explore images in our digital gallery: library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/.
Finally - back in the States, late 1945, after 5 ETO campaigns with the 119th AAA: Normandy, France, to Bavaria, Germany (Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, and Central Europe). Time for some celebrating at Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe Club, at the Paramount Hotel, 235 West 46th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues, Times Square area, in the heart of New York City. Duane Smith (the owner of the photos in this album) is 2nd from the right in this Club "courtesy" photograph. Sgt. Raymond Dawson of Los Angeles (one of Battery A's 90mm gun commanders) is on the right. Ed Snead of a different AAA Gun Battery (Not sure if the 119th) is on the left, and an unidentified GI (but also AAA) is between Ed and Duane. "Welcome home, fella's." As of this writing (Jan. 2017), Mr. Smith is alive and well, living in northern California; Note added, Mr. Smith passed away on 9 Oct., 2017, RIP).
Pages from the Aquacade magazine.
Nothing helps a swimmer more than second-hand smoke, so light up a Chesterfield.
Pages from the Aquacade magazine. Johnny Weissmuller
