WAITING IN THE WINGS - Tecno-Libro

Hidden in a compartment of my grandmother s bottom dresser drawer was an old scrapbook. .Pressed inside were photographs of a beautiful young woman and hundreds of newspaper clippings about vaudeville shows and the movie industry. This is how i learned about my great aunt, Ruby Adams. As a child, i combed through the items that chronicled her life as a vaudeville headliner her success and her tragedy. So begins this novel set in the Golden Age of Hollywood, Prohibition and vaudeville in San Francisco in 1925. Waiting in the Wings tells the story of Ruby Adams, a vaudeville actress and jazz virtuoso with the Will King Follies. As she stands in the wing, waiting to go on stage .of the Strand Theater an incident occurs that changes the course of her life. .With the support of her fiancA©, a successful speakeasy owner, .Ruby and .her attorney battled unscrupulous theater owners, a shady attorney, and the corruption of city government to reveal