The Hammersteins by Oscar Andrew Hammerstein

Author:Oscar Andrew Hammerstein
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Published: 2013-11-09T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

WHEN YOU FIND YOUR TRUE LOVE

Show Boat wasn’t the only boat transporting Oscar Hammerstein II on life’s journey. When Ziegfeld reneged on his promise to open his new theatre with Oscar and Jerry’s show, Oscar had decided, in early March 1926, to head to London, where he could watch over the Drury Lane production of The Desert Song. He booked passage on the Olympic (the nearly twin sister of the Titanic). Oscar, now thirty-one, had sailed on the same ship when he went to Europe for the first time in 1913.

Myra was “too busy” to accompany Oscar, and while on board the Olympic, he met Henry and Dorothy Jacobson. Born in Tasmania, Australia, one of five daughters, Dorothy was a striking blue-eyed beauty and as independent as she was tall, slim, and attractive. After boldly leaving home when she was twenty-two, she had modeled in London and acted in silent movies before moving on to New York City, where she was, now that Ziegfeld had seen her photo, to become one of the girls in his Follies. This would not come to be, however. Dorothy’s mother disapproved: “Please deny you are going into the Follies,” she had pleaded as soon as she found out. Dorothy had complied and backed out of the Follies (the theatre bug hadn’t really bitten her), but not out of going to America.

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