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05/14/2010 13:43 #51564
This is what 1PM looks like05/13/2010 09:53 #51547
Life is a CabaretDoris Eaton Travis, the last living Ziegred Follies girl has died at the age of 106.
She first started dancing for the follies at the age of 14. During the height of the Great Depression she began teaching tap at the Arthur Murray school, eventually opening her own schools in Michigan.
Here is a video of her dancing at the age of 101
I feel like she has been more active in her last half century than I will have been in my first.
Hats off to you, Ms. Eaton Travis.
She first started dancing for the follies at the age of 14. During the height of the Great Depression she began teaching tap at the Arthur Murray school, eventually opening her own schools in Michigan.
In her 70s she earned a long-delayed high school diploma. She then devoted 11 years to acquiring a college degree, taking a course or two a semester at the University of Oklahoma. She graduated in 1992 at the age of 88 with a history major and a Phi Beta Kappa key. She was halfway to a master's degree when she decided to focus on her memoirs instead.
In 2007, Oakland University in Michigan gave Mrs. Travis an honorary doctorate. She responded by singing and dancing "Ballin' the Jack," a song popularized by Lillian Lorraine, a renowned Ziegfeld Follies' star.
A little more than two weeks ago Mrs. Travis returned to Broadway to appear again at the annual Easter Bonnet Competition held by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, this time at the Minskoff Theater. She did a few kicks, apologizing that she no longer performed cartwheels.
Here is a video of her dancing at the age of 101
I feel like she has been more active in her last half century than I will have been in my first.
Hats off to you, Ms. Eaton Travis.
05/03/2010 13:44 #51497
70 and foggy is apocalyptic weather.
04/30/2010 10:12 #51477
Electron Boy save Seattle!The Make-A-Wish foundation gave a child with cancer his wish: to be a superhero. Hundreds of volunteers helped out to let Electron Boy save Seattle from the evil Dr.Dark and Blackout Boy.
Such an awesome story:
Such an awesome story:
04/09/2010 13:02 #51356
METAL!This is the most METAL metal band to grace Odin's hall.
Hevisaurus is a an all-dinosaur metal band you could take your kids to see. You may also bring your Furry friends.
ROAWRRR!
Hevisaurus is a an all-dinosaur metal band you could take your kids to see. You may also bring your Furry friends.
ROAWRRR!
metalpeter - 04/09/10 19:44
I have seen these same Dinosaurs someplace other then in this band. The Guitar is pretty good. But I feel ripped off that then she wakes up so it was just a dream. I think a cool way to end the video is that the little girl gets eaten and then as the music is still playing in bold letters comes up no real children where harmed in the filming of this reenactment of real events. Of course I don't know what the words to to song mean or how they would translate so maybe that wouldn't fit the song.
I have seen these same Dinosaurs someplace other then in this band. The Guitar is pretty good. But I feel ripped off that then she wakes up so it was just a dream. I think a cool way to end the video is that the little girl gets eaten and then as the music is still playing in bold letters comes up no real children where harmed in the filming of this reenactment of real events. Of course I don't know what the words to to song mean or how they would translate so maybe that wouldn't fit the song.
I drove by city hall around 1 and the top was just the barest hint of a shadow behind the fog. Crazy!
oops. maybe this will work :::link:::
Very bizarre! Like I have said before...http://estrip.org/elmwood/journals/index.php?u=libertad&id=38870&s=henny%20penny
Note, you can't see the liberty building, which is a block away.