NEW YORK Shermane Billingsley was barely 2 years old when Broadway gossip columnist Dorothy Kilgallen revealed that Shermane was bedridden with a fever of 104. Less than a year later, Walter Winchell reported that Shermane had vamped to an inquiring columnist, “I will break your heart someday with my big blue eyes!”
The nightspot her father opened as a Prohibition-era speakeasy endured as a Manhattan institution until 1965. For decades she was “the keeper of the flame.”
Celebrate spring at Piper’s Opera House with an USO-WWII “Big Band” Glenn Miller evening starring the Retro Dolls Andrews Sisters; the Kiddos of Storey County Schools and a special guest appearance of Josephine Baker in the personage of Ms. Jakki Ford.