The Folies - The Best

Since "Photo News" has been in Nelson, we've seen some good variety shows, but none has provided entertainment of the high standard achieved by the "Ziegfeld Follies". Unlike many of the shows that have come here, the Follies did not rely upon any one act to carry the show. There were many acts, all varied and all outstanding.

The finale, showing one of the magnificent sets which helped to make this the be

The Kempinskis had an amazing acrobatic act, a sequence of shots here showing the most brilliant scene. Left: One of the troupe prepares to somersault (centre) and then lands again on his partner's shoes (right)

The Ziegfeld Girls in a cutie Kewpie number

Comedian Freddie Sales tells phsychiatrist Lee Davies about his smoking trouble

Freddie in his baby act was a wow

The Trio Arpadis had another great balancing act during which one of the girls walked up one side of a ladder with a male trouper on her head (left) and down the other side (right).

The female member of the "Two Leslies" got it in the neck in this act

Harry Allen and the Coppernobs (his wife and daughter) did a brilliant juggling act

Tibor Simon takes his bow high above the auditorium after his trapeze act

The Ziegfeld Girls in a boudoir number

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The Nelson Photo News

No 31 : May 25, 1963

The Folies - The Best