Mrs. Culp's Revisited: March 4, 1937

'The Great Ziegeld' wins the Oscar for best picture

Only one sentence in today's diary: "Played bridge in afternoon, was very nervous, Mrs. G. talks too much."

Perhaps that night Mrs. Culp tuned in to the radio broadcast of the ninth Academy Awards, where the MGM musical The Great Ziegfeld was named Best Picture. Mrs. Culp had seen the film recently at the Garden Theatre on 20th Avenue and described it as…