Table of Contents Acknowledgments ix Foreword by Anthony Slide 1 A Note on the Text 4 Prologue 5 Introduction 7 1 * Family Life in St. Louis, Missouri 11 2 * The Making of a Ballerina 20 3 * New York and the Circuits 32 4 * Hollywood, a Fanchon and Marco Tour and Pasadena 45 5 * The Roxy and the Circuits 57 6 * The London Palladium 69 7 * A Royal Command Performance and a European and North African Tour 83 8 * Touring the British Provinces with George Ahoy! 93 9 * International Casino and a Royal Performance in Paris 105 10 * Radio City, Brazil and Lean Times 119 11 * Aunt Lenore's Dream House and Performing at the St. Louis Muny 133 12 * Touring with Earl Carroll's Vanities 143 13 * Radio City and Clifford C. Fisher's Folies Bergère 154 14 * Hollywood and Summer Operettas 171 15 * A USO Camp Shows Tour to Japan 180 16 * Radio City, Summer Operettas and the Milton Berle Television Show 194 17 * Final Year in New York 211 18 * Marriage and Four More Careers 222 Epilogue 243 Afterword by Jeanne Devereaux Perkins 246 Appendix One: Sample of Jeanne's Poetry 248 Appendix Two: Jeanne's World War II Legacy 250 Appendix Three: Jeanne's Research on Grace Nicholson 251 Appendix Four: Sarkis Badalyan's Commemorative Poem Written for Jeanne's Celebration of Life at the Huntington Library, October 2011 254 Chapter Notes 255 Bibliography 262 Index 265.