    
Title: Earl Carroll Description: Earl Carroll (1893-1948), American theatrical producer, composer, director, restaurant and theater owner; he is shown in 1926, shaking hands with Vera, Countess of Cathcart, who had been temporarily refused admission into the U.S. and detained at Ellis Island by immigration authorities on charges of "moral turpitude," the first time such charges were ever made - Vera had reportedly squandered Count Cathcart's money to conduct a lavish tryst with another British nobleman and had been named as a co-respondent in scandalous divorce proceedings in England; such scandals obsessing Carroll, who created many of his own, going to prison on a perjury charge related to his giving Vera a wild party in which Carroll had Joyce Hawley, a 17-year-old girl, bath nude in a bathtub filled with champagne; Broadway producers; composers; directors; divorces; restaurant owners; Keywords: scandals, songwriters, theater owners, women's fashions (1926) Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1650 x 1753 (2.89 MPixels) (1.06) Print Size: 14.0 x 14.8 cm; 5.5 x 5.8 inches File Size: 8.29 MB (8,691,600 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000095150 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
