Throwback Thursday and Dolores
Dolores, a famous Ziegfeld girl, was called the
“Empress of Fashion and the Peacock Girl” since she often appeared with a 10‐foot‐wide
multicolored fan. She performed with the Ziegfeld Follies from 1917 to the
early 1920s.
She was born Kathleen Mary Rose in 1892,
the daughter of an English farmer and his wife. She received her education in
England, and it was in a London fashion salon that she was discovered by
Ziegfeld.
In 1923 she left the Follies and married
millionaire Tudor Wilkinson. From then on she and her husband lived a mostly quiet
life in Paris – with one possible exception. There are accounts that during
World War II she was arrested by the Germans and accused of aiding the
Resistance. Is is said she went to prison where she remained until Paris was liberated.
Dolores Wilkinson died in 1975.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Dance History Secret #230:
“Dolores was a performer with the Ziegfeld Follies.”
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― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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