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For instance,-Gladys Gardner (FOLLIES 1913)) and the oldest girl present (57 years old) tried to show some of the new girls that they were smiling wrong at the ringside customers. She cautioned, "You must gurgle everything out right away, girls ?╟÷ just give a likely looking prospect the bare whisper of a smile ?╟÷ LEAVE HIM LOOKING FOR MORES That's how we did it back in '13 ?╟÷ and it workedj" Gladys boasted how she rehearsed right up until opening night of the FOLLIES in 1913 ?╟÷ then Flo Ziegfeld suddenly discovered she was only 14 ?╟÷ and bounced her out of the show. She danced for him until 1919 ?╟÷ then rehearsed right up until opening night of the FOLEIES of that year too ?╟÷- then Flo Ziegfeld suddenly bounced her out again ?╟÷ she was pregnant ?╟÷ and a worried husband finally got word past a dutiful doorman to Flo about his wife's condition5 Looking at the oifer girls, the 1954 models of the Ziegfeld Girl must have been encouraged: there was Pat Kenney. FOLLIES 1928 ?╟÷ and now Mrs. William Gargan, wife of the famous movie star* there was Flo MacFadden, FOLLIES 1928 ?╟÷ and now Mrs. Jack Haley, wife of the famous comedianJ Virginia Case, FOLLIES 1929 Jimmy Monaco,*the famous song-writerf Freeman company and widow of - more - PUBLIC relations BEVERLY HILLS t GAL. ?╜ 214 N, CANON DRtVE ?╟≤ CRESTVfEW 6*4326