The last Ziegfeld Follies Girl, Doris Eaton Travis has died
Doris Eaton Travis died Tuesday at the age of 106. She was one of the legendry Ziegfeld Follies Chorus girl, who wore elaborate costumes for the series of lavish Broadway theatrical productions in 1900s.
DORIS EATON Travis died Tuesday at the age of 106. She was one of the legendry Ziegfeld Follies Chorus girl, who wore elaborate costumes for the series of lavish Broadway theatrical productions in 1900s.
Travis, who was from West Bloomfield, Michigan, was a supporter of the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS fundraising organizations and appeared often in its Eater Bonnet Competition.
Even after more than 90 year as a hoofer, dancing came easy to Travis, whose extravagant Ziegfeld Follies show enchanted Broadway from 1907 into the 1930s.
“I am the last Ziegfeld Follies girls now,” she said when she was 102. “It is an honor in a way. I certainly did not think that would happen.”
Travis was born march 14, 1904, one of the seven children to Charles Eaton and his wife Mary. Some of the children, who became known as The Eatons on the Broadway, got there first break when stock company productions of “Blue Bird” appeared in Washington in 1911.
Travis, who owned several dance studios in Michigan and operated a horse ranch in Oklahoma, had a few wrinkles and white curly hair that framed her eyes of blue. She enrolled at Oklahoma University and earned a bachelor's degree in history at age 88.
Travis' love of dancing and musical theater was shaken when the stock market crash of 1929 ushered in the Depression and an end to many theaters
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