"Evelyn Ruh used to dance and sing in the famous St. Louis Municipal Opera before she came to Broadway."
(THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, MAY 22, 1927, Pg. 4E, Col. 8)
To those who regard the chorus as the lowest rung on the theatrical ladder, Evelyn Ruh, who disports in the ensemble of "The Girl Friend," at the Vanderbilt Theater, is a glittering example of the girl who bucks Broadway and wins. Miss Ruh is nearing 18 (sic) and until last November had never been in New York.
"I was born in St. Louis," she relates. "My older brother is 30, my sister a year or two older. My parents are in the 60's. In other words, I am the youngest child, and therefore, have more or less had my own way.
"Two years ago I entered the St. Louis Municipal Opera Company. I made good and when the season was over last summer, I decided to come to New York.
"I had no friends here and only the $140 I had saved. For seven weeks after I arrived in New York, I lived alone. Through an agent I got a job in a night club, making enough to pay my expenses and also to take a course in acrobatic dancing. As a result of this training and information I got from other girls, I applied for a job with. 'The Girl Friend.' Jack Haskell engaged me after a few minutes' try-out.
"For a time I kept my job with the night club. However, it is too hard to work in both a club and a theater, so I gave up the clubwork.
"Never in my experience in New York have I had the slightest difficulty with men. During my clubwork I was always too busy to notice whether men existed or not. The club sent a chaperone, usually the doorman or his assistant, home with the girls in a cab.
"I hope to get a partner and to work up a routine for ballroom dancing after this show. You see, I am working hard, keeping myself in shape, and after this experience I know I will be able to learn ballroom routines.
"No, sir, there won't be any doubt about my making good," said Miss Ruh, shaking her head determinedly.
(THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1926, Pg. 2E, Cols. 5-6)
"Although he (Busby "Buzz" Berkeley, real name William Berkeley Enos) earned considerable plaudits for his choreography, he, like many Hollywood residents, also made the newspapers for more personal reasons. He married six times, including once to Evelyn Ruh, a dancer in the Connecticut Yankee company he had met at rehearsal. He was twenty-eight at the time and she only nineteen. Two years later he wed Esther Muir, a Broadway starlet. That marriage, like his others, did not last long. Myrna Kennedy, a film actress, won a divorce from him on the grounds that he cared more for his work than his home. In 1935, drinking and driving on the wrong side of the highway, he got into an automobile accident in which three people died. He ended up settling a damage suit for $95,000, just part of the collateral damage that accompanied the Hollywood life."
(https://epdf.pub/mass-appeal-the-formative-age-of-the-movies-radio-and-tv.html, Pg. 18)
Buzz was not linked romantically to anyone in the rehearsal phase of A Connecticut Yankee until he made the acquaintance of a pretty dancer in the chorus named Evelyn Ruh; shortly thereafter, the two became a couple. Less than a fortnight following the show's opening on November 3, Buzz announced that he and Evelyn would be married within the week. The November 15 edition of the New York Times wrote of the coming nuptials, listing Miss Ruh's age as nineteen, and Berkeley's erroneously as twenty-eight (he was thirty-one).
(Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley
By Jeffrey Spivak, Pages 34-35)
The chorus—that glittering feminine aggregation of youth, beauty and potential stage stars, from whose ranks emerged Julia Sanderson, Elsie Ferguson and other footllght favorites—has sent forth another of its lovely sisterhood in Evelyn Ruh, who plays the lady-in-waiting in "A Connecticut Yankee" at the Shubert-Jamaica theatre this week.
Her chorus experience brought her self-assurance and the necessary poise, so when the right opportunity came Miss Ruh was ready for it. It was during the New York engagement of "A Connecticut Yankee" when the girl who was playing the lady-in-waiting took suddenly ill and Miss Ruh was rushed from the chorus to her first talking part.
(THE NASSAU DAILY REVIEW, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1929, Pg. 5, Col. 2)
Nancy Carroll, titian-hatred "pep" girl of the movies, is shown as she alighted from a western plane at Central Airport last night and prepared to board another in the last lap of a transcontinental dash to the bedside of her uncle, Billy LaHiff, now seriously ill in a New York hospital. Accompanied by Evelyn Ruh, another of Hollywood's famous femmes, she arrived at Camden on a TWA plane at 7:30 o'clock last night on her way to New York, having left Los Angeles 24 hours previously.
(THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL 27, 1934, Pg. 5, Col. 2)
(THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, MAY 22, 1927, Pg. 4E, Col. 8)
To those who regard the chorus as the lowest rung on the theatrical ladder, Evelyn Ruh, who disports in the ensemble of "The Girl Friend," at the Vanderbilt Theater, is a glittering example of the girl who bucks Broadway and wins. Miss Ruh is nearing 18 (sic) and until last November had never been in New York.
"I was born in St. Louis," she relates. "My older brother is 30, my sister a year or two older. My parents are in the 60's. In other words, I am the youngest child, and therefore, have more or less had my own way.
"Two years ago I entered the St. Louis Municipal Opera Company. I made good and when the season was over last summer, I decided to come to New York.
"I had no friends here and only the $140 I had saved. For seven weeks after I arrived in New York, I lived alone. Through an agent I got a job in a night club, making enough to pay my expenses and also to take a course in acrobatic dancing. As a result of this training and information I got from other girls, I applied for a job with. 'The Girl Friend.' Jack Haskell engaged me after a few minutes' try-out.
"For a time I kept my job with the night club. However, it is too hard to work in both a club and a theater, so I gave up the clubwork.
"Never in my experience in New York have I had the slightest difficulty with men. During my clubwork I was always too busy to notice whether men existed or not. The club sent a chaperone, usually the doorman or his assistant, home with the girls in a cab.
"I hope to get a partner and to work up a routine for ballroom dancing after this show. You see, I am working hard, keeping myself in shape, and after this experience I know I will be able to learn ballroom routines.
"No, sir, there won't be any doubt about my making good," said Miss Ruh, shaking her head determinedly.
(THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1926, Pg. 2E, Cols. 5-6)
"Although he (Busby "Buzz" Berkeley, real name William Berkeley Enos) earned considerable plaudits for his choreography, he, like many Hollywood residents, also made the newspapers for more personal reasons. He married six times, including once to Evelyn Ruh, a dancer in the Connecticut Yankee company he had met at rehearsal. He was twenty-eight at the time and she only nineteen. Two years later he wed Esther Muir, a Broadway starlet. That marriage, like his others, did not last long. Myrna Kennedy, a film actress, won a divorce from him on the grounds that he cared more for his work than his home. In 1935, drinking and driving on the wrong side of the highway, he got into an automobile accident in which three people died. He ended up settling a damage suit for $95,000, just part of the collateral damage that accompanied the Hollywood life."
(https://epdf.pub/mass-appeal-the-formative-age-of-the-movies-radio-and-tv.html, Pg. 18)
Buzz was not linked romantically to anyone in the rehearsal phase of A Connecticut Yankee until he made the acquaintance of a pretty dancer in the chorus named Evelyn Ruh; shortly thereafter, the two became a couple. Less than a fortnight following the show's opening on November 3, Buzz announced that he and Evelyn would be married within the week. The November 15 edition of the New York Times wrote of the coming nuptials, listing Miss Ruh's age as nineteen, and Berkeley's erroneously as twenty-eight (he was thirty-one).
(Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley
By Jeffrey Spivak, Pages 34-35)
The chorus—that glittering feminine aggregation of youth, beauty and potential stage stars, from whose ranks emerged Julia Sanderson, Elsie Ferguson and other footllght favorites—has sent forth another of its lovely sisterhood in Evelyn Ruh, who plays the lady-in-waiting in "A Connecticut Yankee" at the Shubert-Jamaica theatre this week.
Her chorus experience brought her self-assurance and the necessary poise, so when the right opportunity came Miss Ruh was ready for it. It was during the New York engagement of "A Connecticut Yankee" when the girl who was playing the lady-in-waiting took suddenly ill and Miss Ruh was rushed from the chorus to her first talking part.
(THE NASSAU DAILY REVIEW, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1929, Pg. 5, Col. 2)
Nancy Carroll, titian-hatred "pep" girl of the movies, is shown as she alighted from a western plane at Central Airport last night and prepared to board another in the last lap of a transcontinental dash to the bedside of her uncle, Billy LaHiff, now seriously ill in a New York hospital. Accompanied by Evelyn Ruh, another of Hollywood's famous femmes, she arrived at Camden on a TWA plane at 7:30 o'clock last night on her way to New York, having left Los Angeles 24 hours previously.
(THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL 27, 1934, Pg. 5, Col. 2)
"Evelyn Ruh used to dance and sing in the famous St. Louis Municipal Opera before she came to Broadway."
(THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, MAY 22, 1927, Pg. 4E, Col. 8)
To those who regard the chorus as the lowest rung on the theatrical ladder, Evelyn Ruh, who disports in the ensemble of "The Girl Friend," at the Vanderbilt Theater, is a glittering example of the girl who bucks Broadway and wins. Miss Ruh is nearing 18 (sic) and until last November had never been in New York.
"I was born in St. Louis," she relates. "My older brother is 30, my sister a year or two older. My parents are in the 60's. In other words, I am the youngest child, and therefore, have more or less had my own way.
"Two years ago I entered the St. Louis Municipal Opera Company. I made good and when the season was over last summer, I decided to come to New York.
"I had no friends here and only the $140 I had saved. For seven weeks after I arrived in New York, I lived alone. Through an agent I got a job in a night club, making enough to pay my expenses and also to take a course in acrobatic dancing. As a result of this training and information I got from other girls, I applied for a job with. 'The Girl Friend.' Jack Haskell engaged me after a few minutes' try-out.
"For a time I kept my job with the night club. However, it is too hard to work in both a club and a theater, so I gave up the clubwork.
"Never in my experience in New York have I had the slightest difficulty with men. During my clubwork I was always too busy to notice whether men existed or not. The club sent a chaperone, usually the doorman or his assistant, home with the girls in a cab.
"I hope to get a partner and to work up a routine for ballroom dancing after this show. You see, I am working hard, keeping myself in shape, and after this experience I know I will be able to learn ballroom routines.
"No, sir, there won't be any doubt about my making good," said Miss Ruh, shaking her head determinedly.
(THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1926, Pg. 2E, Cols. 5-6)
"Although he (Busby "Buzz" Berkeley, real name William Berkeley Enos) earned considerable plaudits for his choreography, he, like many Hollywood residents, also made the newspapers for more personal reasons. He married six times, including once to Evelyn Ruh, a dancer in the Connecticut Yankee company he had met at rehearsal. He was twenty-eight at the time and she only nineteen. Two years later he wed Esther Muir, a Broadway starlet. That marriage, like his others, did not last long. Myrna Kennedy, a film actress, won a divorce from him on the grounds that he cared more for his work than his home. In 1935, drinking and driving on the wrong side of the highway, he got into an automobile accident in which three people died. He ended up settling a damage suit for $95,000, just part of the collateral damage that accompanied the Hollywood life."
(https://epdf.pub/mass-appeal-the-formative-age-of-the-movies-radio-and-tv.html, Pg. 18)
Buzz was not linked romantically to anyone in the rehearsal phase of A Connecticut Yankee until he made the acquaintance of a pretty dancer in the chorus named Evelyn Ruh; shortly thereafter, the two became a couple. Less than a fortnight following the show's opening on November 3, Buzz announced that he and Evelyn would be married within the week. The November 15 edition of the New York Times wrote of the coming nuptials, listing Miss Ruh's age as nineteen, and Berkeley's erroneously as twenty-eight (he was thirty-one).
(Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley
By Jeffrey Spivak, Pages 34-35)
The chorus—that glittering feminine aggregation of youth, beauty and potential stage stars, from whose ranks emerged Julia Sanderson, Elsie Ferguson and other footllght favorites—has sent forth another of its lovely sisterhood in Evelyn Ruh, who plays the lady-in-waiting in "A Connecticut Yankee" at the Shubert-Jamaica theatre this week.
Her chorus experience brought her self-assurance and the necessary poise, so when the right opportunity came Miss Ruh was ready for it. It was during the New York engagement of "A Connecticut Yankee" when the girl who was playing the lady-in-waiting took suddenly ill and Miss Ruh was rushed from the chorus to her first talking part.
(THE NASSAU DAILY REVIEW, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1929, Pg. 5, Col. 2)
Nancy Carroll, titian-hatred "pep" girl of the movies, is shown as she alighted from a western plane at Central Airport last night and prepared to board another in the last lap of a transcontinental dash to the bedside of her uncle, Billy LaHiff, now seriously ill in a New York hospital. Accompanied by Evelyn Ruh, another of Hollywood's famous femmes, she arrived at Camden on a TWA plane at 7:30 o'clock last night on her way to New York, having left Los Angeles 24 hours previously.
(THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL 27, 1934, Pg. 5, Col. 2)
(THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, MAY 22, 1927, Pg. 4E, Col. 8)
To those who regard the chorus as the lowest rung on the theatrical ladder, Evelyn Ruh, who disports in the ensemble of "The Girl Friend," at the Vanderbilt Theater, is a glittering example of the girl who bucks Broadway and wins. Miss Ruh is nearing 18 (sic) and until last November had never been in New York.
"I was born in St. Louis," she relates. "My older brother is 30, my sister a year or two older. My parents are in the 60's. In other words, I am the youngest child, and therefore, have more or less had my own way.
"Two years ago I entered the St. Louis Municipal Opera Company. I made good and when the season was over last summer, I decided to come to New York.
"I had no friends here and only the $140 I had saved. For seven weeks after I arrived in New York, I lived alone. Through an agent I got a job in a night club, making enough to pay my expenses and also to take a course in acrobatic dancing. As a result of this training and information I got from other girls, I applied for a job with. 'The Girl Friend.' Jack Haskell engaged me after a few minutes' try-out.
"For a time I kept my job with the night club. However, it is too hard to work in both a club and a theater, so I gave up the clubwork.
"Never in my experience in New York have I had the slightest difficulty with men. During my clubwork I was always too busy to notice whether men existed or not. The club sent a chaperone, usually the doorman or his assistant, home with the girls in a cab.
"I hope to get a partner and to work up a routine for ballroom dancing after this show. You see, I am working hard, keeping myself in shape, and after this experience I know I will be able to learn ballroom routines.
"No, sir, there won't be any doubt about my making good," said Miss Ruh, shaking her head determinedly.
(THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1926, Pg. 2E, Cols. 5-6)
"Although he (Busby "Buzz" Berkeley, real name William Berkeley Enos) earned considerable plaudits for his choreography, he, like many Hollywood residents, also made the newspapers for more personal reasons. He married six times, including once to Evelyn Ruh, a dancer in the Connecticut Yankee company he had met at rehearsal. He was twenty-eight at the time and she only nineteen. Two years later he wed Esther Muir, a Broadway starlet. That marriage, like his others, did not last long. Myrna Kennedy, a film actress, won a divorce from him on the grounds that he cared more for his work than his home. In 1935, drinking and driving on the wrong side of the highway, he got into an automobile accident in which three people died. He ended up settling a damage suit for $95,000, just part of the collateral damage that accompanied the Hollywood life."
(https://epdf.pub/mass-appeal-the-formative-age-of-the-movies-radio-and-tv.html, Pg. 18)
Buzz was not linked romantically to anyone in the rehearsal phase of A Connecticut Yankee until he made the acquaintance of a pretty dancer in the chorus named Evelyn Ruh; shortly thereafter, the two became a couple. Less than a fortnight following the show's opening on November 3, Buzz announced that he and Evelyn would be married within the week. The November 15 edition of the New York Times wrote of the coming nuptials, listing Miss Ruh's age as nineteen, and Berkeley's erroneously as twenty-eight (he was thirty-one).
(Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley
By Jeffrey Spivak, Pages 34-35)
The chorus—that glittering feminine aggregation of youth, beauty and potential stage stars, from whose ranks emerged Julia Sanderson, Elsie Ferguson and other footllght favorites—has sent forth another of its lovely sisterhood in Evelyn Ruh, who plays the lady-in-waiting in "A Connecticut Yankee" at the Shubert-Jamaica theatre this week.
Her chorus experience brought her self-assurance and the necessary poise, so when the right opportunity came Miss Ruh was ready for it. It was during the New York engagement of "A Connecticut Yankee" when the girl who was playing the lady-in-waiting took suddenly ill and Miss Ruh was rushed from the chorus to her first talking part.
(THE NASSAU DAILY REVIEW, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1929, Pg. 5, Col. 2)
Nancy Carroll, titian-hatred "pep" girl of the movies, is shown as she alighted from a western plane at Central Airport last night and prepared to board another in the last lap of a transcontinental dash to the bedside of her uncle, Billy LaHiff, now seriously ill in a New York hospital. Accompanied by Evelyn Ruh, another of Hollywood's famous femmes, she arrived at Camden on a TWA plane at 7:30 o'clock last night on her way to New York, having left Los Angeles 24 hours previously.
(THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL 27, 1934, Pg. 5, Col. 2)
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