Judy Garland by Anne Edwards

Author:Anne Edwards
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781589797888
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing

For nineteen weeks she played to packed houses. The grind was brutal. On a Sunday less than four weeks after she had opened she collapsed and was rushed to the Le Roy Hospital on Sixty-first Street, and there treated by a Dr. Udall Salamon for nervous exhaustion. By midweek she was back onstage. It was a marathon engagement. Eight hundred thousand people came to see her—breaking every existing record at the Palace.

She closed on a Sunday, February 24, 1952. Jimmy Stewart and Lauritz Melchior, the Metropolitan Opera star, were in the audience. Both joined her onstage at the finale, and Mr. Melchior, who was to follow her into the Palace, led the audience in a music tribute, singing—as her last English audience had sung—"Auld Lang Syne.”

The past would appear over and done with—swept away, lost, forgotten in the vitality of her new self, her newfound life-style. Luft was by her side. They were living a brassy, late-night life, thriving on nightclub smoke, surrounded by new faces—Broadway folk, nightclub habitués, musicians, and gamblers. She had earned $20,000 a week at the Palace and had never seen a penny of it, trusting Luft and Lastfogel to handle the finances. The Garland bandwagon had greased its motor and refueled, and the world was once again climbing aboard. But Judy loved the feeling of being “surrounded.” She was, in fact, very happy. Liza was on her mind, but she dreamed of a new future for the child, and she was looking forward to their being reunited.

She was, in fact, heading toward California. For on April 26, she was to open at the Philharmonic Auditorium in Los Angeles.

Hollywood columnists Sheilah Graham, Hedda Hopper, and Mayer’s old friend Louella Parsons all announced from their Hollywood perches that Judy was on “thecomeback road”

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