This is the back of the Cousin Carrie page. Don't recognize any of these 1926 theatrical stars.Metta Wooster looks like she might have had the wise-cracking Eve Arden role of early Broadway. Her barely disguised sneer stands out from the rest of the romantics and vamps on the page.
I love it that there were single-named vamps too, like Mitzi
ReplyDeleteMetta Wooster is my great grandmother.
ReplyDeleteMe too!
DeleteMine too! I only know about her marriage, moving to Paris, having three children, including my grandma (her middle child). After her marriage ended, the Father of her children stayed in Europe (I think at least partially to keep custody, and he later re-married). I do not know much about Metra's life after that, except my dad said he visited her once, I think, when he was grown. Do you know more about her life after she returned to the USA?
DeleteMine too! I only know about her marriage, moving to Paris, having three children, including my grandma (her middle child). After her marriage ended, the Father of her children stayed in Europe (I think at least partially to keep custody, and he later re-married). I do not know much about Metta's life after that, except that my dad said he visited her once, I think, when he was grown. Do you know more about her life after she returned to the USA?
DeleteHow wonderful! Have you heard many stories about her career in the theater?
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