Women runners of the US Olympic team practicing on the high seas aboard the
S.S. President Roosevelt in 1928. Left to Right: Elta Cartwright, Elizabeth Robinson, Ann Varana, Mary T. Washburn, Olive B. Hasenfun, Loretta McNeil and Edna E, Sayer.
Coach Mel Sheppard is seated on the ladder. click to flip through (4) Courtesy of the Clarke Historical Museum Elta Cartwright is sitting up front on the right, near bicycle.
After breakfast at the Blue Room on the outskirts of Ferndale, my dad was taking me to see a group of turtles his friend Menard Hendrickson had found in a ditch off Frog Alley. I was a little kid but I remember the story my dad told me on the way about Menard s wife, Elta. Her talents were unknown when she was a child but became unexpectedly recognized later. A Cinderella story.
Dean in full flow. STICK ON a bra and it changes a man, says a man who should know. “People think playing the dame in panto is just a bit of a laugh, but they couldn’t be more wrong,” explains Dean Park, star of countless festive favourites across Scotland over the decades. “I’m deadly serious. Once you’ve fallen down the stairs in heels a couple of times, once you’ve tried to deliver your lines in those get-ups, you come to understand that.” He smiles: “Panto is a tightly-controlled, skilled performance. I feel incredibly lucky to have had the chance to experience it all.”