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In 1930 wealthy Scottish socialite Dorothy Brooke (1883-1955)
followed her new husband to Cairo, Egypt, where she discovered
thousands of malnourished and suffering former British war horses
leading lives of backbreaking toil and misery. Brought to the
Middle East by British forces during the Great War, these
ex-cavalry horses had been left behind at the war's end, abandoned
like used equipment too costly to be sent home. In Dorothy Brooke
and the Fight to Save Cairo's Lost War Horses, Grant Hayter-Menzies
chronicles the lives and eventual rescue of these noble creatures,
who after years of deprivation and suffering (many were blind; most
were starving) found respite in Brooke's Old War Horse Memorial
Hospital (still in operation and now rechristened The Brooke); he
also relates the story of the challenges of founding and
maintaining this scale of animal rescue. The legacy of the Old War
Horse Memorial Hospital and its founder endures today in the dozens
of international Brooke animal welfare facilities in existence
dedicated to improving the lives of working horses, donkeys, and
mules across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
In 1930 wealthy Scottish socialite Dorothy Brooke followed her new
husband to Cairo, where she discovered thousands of suffering
former British war horses leading lives of toil and misery. Brought
to the Middle East by British forces during the Great War, these
ex-cavalry horses had been left behind at the war's end, abandoned
as used equipment too costly to send home. Grant Hayter-Menzies
chronicles not only the lives and eventual rescue of these noble
creatures, who after years of deprivation and suffering found
respite in the Old War Horse Memorial Hospital established by
Dorothy, but also the story of the challenges of founding and
maintaining an animal-rescue institution on this scale. The legacy
of the Old War Horse Memorial Hospital and its founder endures
today in the dozens of international Brooke animal-welfare
facilities dedicated to improving the lives of working horses,
donkeys and mules across Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Broadway actress Billie Burke was one of the most sought after
young stage beauties of her time, stealing the hearts of Enrico
Caruso, Mark Twain, and, most importantly, famed Broadway producer
Florenz Ziegfeld, who became her husband. Following Ziegfeld's
death, the threats of financial ruin and encroaching age forced
Burke to recreate herself as a Hollywood character actress. This
biography benefits from the cooperation of the daughter and
grandchildren of Burke and Ziegfeld, as well as from anecdotes
provided by actors who performed with Burke on the stage and
screen. In addition to studying the character and significance of
Burke's greatest screen role in Glinda the Good Witch of the North,
this richly illustrated book also provides a complete history of
Burke's stage, screen, and radio work.
Written with the cooperation of President Jimmy Carter and his
family, this books provides an intimate glimpse inside the life of
the woman who - as nurse, mother and social justice activist in
segregated southwest Georgia - made a lifelong habit of breaking
the rules defining a woman's place in and out of the home and the
status of blacks in society. As the only white nurse in her rural
community who cared for black families, as a 68-year old Peace
Corps Volunteer in India, as a fearless supporter of civil rights
and as a First Mother unlike any other, Lillian Carter showed how
individual courage, conviction and compassion can make a
difference. Drawing on interviews with friends and colleagues,
members of the Plains, Georgia, black community, Peace Corps
Volunteers who trained with her, White House insiders and key
players in the civil rights movement, as well as letters, documents
and photographs never before made public, this book captures the
essence of the woman the press dubbed "Rose Kennedy without the
hair dye" and "First Mother of the world".
Charlotte Greenwood never intended to become a comedienne, but she
was unfashionably tall at 5'10"" and her early aspirations to
become a great dramatic actress eventually led her to the field of
comedy. Greenwood, whose early life had taught her nothing if not
how to be optimistic, stifled her disappointment and used her
considerable skill to become one of the greatest comedic actresses
of the early twentieth century. Based on Greenwood's unpublished
memoirs; this biography presents a personal, detailed look at her
colorful life. Beginning with her early years in Philadelphia,
Boston and Norfolk, it relates her struggles with ill health, her
social difficulties caused by her then unusual height and her
realization of her ambition to become an actress. The main focus of
the work is her career, which spanned more than 50 years and ranged
from vaudeville to the stage and, finally, to films (during the
World War II years she starred in Twentieth Century Fox musicals
with Cesar Romero, Betty Grable, Edward Everett Horton, Jack Haley,
Don Ameche, and Carmen Miranda). Her roles in a variety of works
including ""The Passing Show of 1912"", ""So Long Letty"" (both
stage and film), and ""I Remember Mama"" are also discussed.
Special emphasis is placed on her career-defining (and best-known)
role as Aunt Eller Murphy in the 1955 film adaptation of
""Oklahoma!"" Charlotte Greenwood's performance history, a list of
her known recordings, and a filmography for her husband Martin
Broones are also included.
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