Jeanne Devereaux, prima ballerina of Vaudeville and Broadway
Subtitle: "she ran between the raindrops"
By: Kathleen Menzie Lesko ; foreword by Anthony Slide
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781476666945
Subjects: Vaudeville; Dancers; Biography; History
Description: "Born Jean Helman, she entered showbiz as a dancing trouper performing in palatial theaters and was one of the last vaudevillians surviving into the 2010s. In her later years living in Pasadena, California, Devereaux indulged her passion for research and writing in the Huntington Library's Rothenberg Reading Room, losing none of her intelligence and wit despite fading memory"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-264) and index.