Date: July 2, 2025
Author: Eliza Knight
Title: Starring Adele Astaire
Fred & Adele Astaire are a brother and sister dancing & comedy partnership from the early 1920’s. I read along as they twirled and shimmied their way through London, Paris and New York. Wowing their fans with fancy footwork and well delivered lines in each performance.
Mz. Knight, the author, is a historian and put together an interesting manuscript. Unfortunately, this book didn’t call to me. The writing was fairly dry and seemed more matter-of-fact and less emotionally involved. There was some interactions on a personal level between the characters but it felt more like a newspaper article that would have been found written in what I am assuming was a 1920’s gossip magazine/publication(?) entitled The Limelight, which I only know of because it was quoted and often in this story.
I felt I read about one too many dance numbers and decided to let the curtains fall early.