(Or From Paris To Broadway: It’s The Ziegfeld Follies Chapter) Many of the songs featured in our last chapter – aka the spooning-sex chapter – may have felt as though they were written with one goal in mind; to grab the attention of Florenz Ziegfeld - a man whose sex-obsessed aesthetic was taking New York by storm - and thus be featured in one of his blockbuster Broadway productions. Florenz and his girlfriend/”common-law wife” – the spectacularly dimensioned Anna Held – had already been taking New York by storm for close to a decade, but 1907 was the year they took their fame and the entire concept of Ziegfeld-ism to a whole new level, with a production inspired – practically plagiarized really – by the far, far more risqué theatrical productions of Paris, from where Anna liked to pretend she came. Paris - and to a lesser extent London - continued to flourish as their own centres of popular culture. London was the home of an aggressively naff music hall scene, of w...
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