Waiting in the wings
By: Geene Rees
Publisher: Regina Rees; Block Books Publishing
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780997670219
Subjects: History; Accidents; Nineteen twenties; Singers; Vaudeville; Dancers; Fiction
Description: "Set in the Golden Age of Hollywood, Prohibition and vaudeville in San Francisco in 1925, Waiting in the Wings tells the story of Ruby Adams, a vaudeville actress and jazz virtuoso with the Will King Follies. As she stands in the wing, waiting to go on stage of the Strand Theater an incident occurs that changes the course of her life. With the support of her fiancé, a successful speakeasy owner, Ruby and her attorney battled unscrupulous theater owners, a shady attorney, and the corruption of city government to reveal the truth and motives that prematurely took away her career but not her spirit. What happens next is an unbelievable response which is both tragic and uplifting. Prohibition, the heyday of the 1920s, a burgeoning movie industry, political corruption, graft and fraud all combine to paint an intriguing picture of San Francisco in the 1920s. This human history highlights one person's fight for survival and the compulsion of greed"--Back cover.
Notes: Biographical novel.