The theatre's history is told in a lusciously produced volume in which pretty Follies girls predominate naturally enough, as this was showman Florenz Ziegfeld's temple from 1913 to 1927.
For a couple of decades into the twentieth century, a majority of the theater owners and producers were gentile (including Florenz Ziegfeld, who was Lutheran), but that too began to change with the expanding empire of the Shuberts.