Kirsti's Reviews > Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies

Visually stunning biography in collage form. Doris started in the Ziegfield Follies when she was barely fourteen and over the years met eeeeeeverybody--not only Ziegfeld but also Woodrow Wilson, Will Rogers, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Fred Astaire, Babe Ruth, Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, Charles Lindbergh, the Warner Brothers (back when they were Eichelbaums), Oscar Levant, and many more . . . including John Wayne, back in 1929 when "he was the prop boy." It was also interesting to read about her struggles and triumphs in later life, as a businesswoman and college graduate. (She graduated from college at 88 and got an honorary doctorate at 100.)