sentences:  The sketches were loosely based on the news and the lives and affairs of the rich and famous, and other people of the day, such as Joan Crawford, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Noël Coward, Josephine Baker, and Aimee Semple McPherson.The revue was a successor to the creators' "Face the Music" and was Marilyn Miller's last stage appearance before her death.It was also the first Broadway show to give an African-American star, Ethel Waters, equal billing with whites.