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Hazel Forbes (1928).

A truth is often only what people want to believe. The man who founded the Ziegfeld Follies–Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. was aware of this human foible from an early age.

Tell them what they want to hear and you can sell them anything. Ziegfeld jr.

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was good at selling things–he claimed as a child he once sold tickets for a show featuring a tankful of invisible fish. The show sold out. One can imagine his pitch:

“Look closely, ladies and gentlemen, and I promise you won’t see a thing!”

Ziegfeld had chutzpah.

The son of a German father and Belgian mother, Ziegfeld was born in Chicago in 1867.

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When he was five, he witnessed the Great Fire that devastated Chicago. Three hundred people were killed, 100,000 left homeless, and over three square miles of the city destroyed. It was a spectacle he never forgot.

His father ran the city’s Musical College.

In later life his father opened the Trocadero nightclub. The club offered