Broadway History: Florenz Ziegfeld Makes His Mark
…lyn Miller, Ed Wynn, Gilda Gray, Nora Bayes, and Sophie Tucker. Bert Williams Williams & Walker in the hit show In Dahomey. Williams (left) would headline at the Follies It was in 1910 that Ziegfeld took a bold step when he hired Bert Williams to appear on his stage. Williams was a very popular black entertainer who was noted for creating comic characters that captured the isolation and pathos of the black experience in America. His most popular s…