Sylvia Gaines vanished on the night of June 16, 1926, 10 months after arriving in Seattle. The following morning, two men walking to work on a narrow footpath along a lake shore spotted a slipper and hat and then the bloody form of a nearly naked young woman in a grove of alder trees.
The actress who was a child star, teenage addict, comedy queen and successful producer has gradually become the face of a new kind, compassionate way of making television in the United States
‘Celebration’ has raised hopes and questions. How can an artist who has been so many different women accommodate all of them on the stage for one night?