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Cover; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Representative Ziegfeld Girl; 1. Bladen to Rio Grande, 1897-1913; 2. Rio Grande to Norfolk, Virginia, 1913-1920; 3. Norfolk to Broadway, 1920-1924; 4. Ziegfeld Girl, 1924-1925; 5. Palm Beach Nights, The Bunk ... and More, 1926-1927; 6. The Bladen Beauty's "Big Apple," or Beryl Halley's New York City; 7. The World She Left Behind, or Gallia County in Prosperity and Depression; 8. Life After the Follies, 1927-1929; 9. Surviving the Depression, 1929-1933; 10. Marriage and the Ziegfeld Girls Club, 1933-1941 |
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11. New York to Texas, 1941-195312. Texas, 1953-1988; Appendix: Beryl's Buddies; Chapter Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Born in rural Ohio in 1897, Beryl Halley was educated at a strict Freewill Baptist school. After briefly teaching in a one-room schoolhouse, she joined the navy in 1918 before her unlikely path led her to Broadway, then to the Ziegfeld Follies (1923-1925). She also appeared in Earl Carroll's Vanities and other revues, as well as in films, and had a widely publicized brush with the law (over alleged nudity) in 1926. She retired from show business in 1930, married an insurance executive and had a family, later reappearing in the public eye as an officer in the Ziegfeld Girls' Club. Making her home in Houston in the 1950s, she worked as legal secretary for a large law firm. Her death at age 90 was unpublicized. Her story is told here for the first time |
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Halley, Beryl, 1897-1988.
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Ziegfeld follies -- History
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Ziegfeld follies fast |
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Dancers -- United States -- Biography
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Actresses -- United States -- Biography
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Entertainment & Performing Arts.
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History & Criticism.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
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Theater.
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PERFORMING ARTS.
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Actresses
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Dancers
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United States
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Biographies
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History
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Electronic book
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Tribe, Ivan M
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| ISBN |
9781476636771 |
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147663677X |
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