If you don=92t like fireworks, you can settle for sparklers, or at least
spectacle with the CabaretCinema screening of the 1936 Oscar winner
THE GREAT ZIEGFELD at 8 p.m. this Friday July 4 at the Rubin Museum of
Art=92s K2 Lounge.
As The New York Times re****ted when it opened, =93The budget shows on
the screen. It is there in the cast, with William Powell, Myrna Loy,
Luise Rainer, Virginia Bruce, Frank Morgan, Fannie [sic] Brice, Ray
Bolger, Reginald Owen, Ernest Cossart, Harriet Hoctor and the many
others who prompted the studio's weaker students of astronomy to
advertise their wares with a "more stars than there are in the
heavens" slogan. It is there, too, in the glittering sets, the
exuberantly extravagant song and dance numbers, the brilliant
costumes, the whole weeping panoply of a Ziegfeld show produced with a
princely disregard for the cost accountant.=94
It is all part of our =93What Price Paradise?=94 film series (the price
for MGM in 1936 not incidentally was $1.5 million dollars) to
complement our Buddha in Paradise exhibition. Come and indulge in a
little heaven on earth for the paradisiac price of $7 spent at the K2
Lounge bar.
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