The Pittsburgh Press from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Page 136

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omeback At Craft Avenue By Barbara Cloud Press Staff Writer SALLY STARR is picking up a career from which she retired 20 years ago. It's a career that brought her fame in the 1920s when she appeared in George White's "Scandals" at the tender age of 14. The Pittsburgh dancer eventually found herself in Hollywood with a contract at Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studio. Show business was her life for the next 16 years. "Believe me, it takes a lot of nerve to get up on a stage after being away so long." said the petite Miss Starr, who makes her home at 15200 Fifth Ave.

"And, of course, I'm no longer a budding ingenue," she laughed. She's making that initial step back into greasepaint in the current 'production of "Bemardine" at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. It will be at the Craft Avenue Theater throujn June 21. Sarah Kathryn Sturm's success in show business leans toward the Cinderella-type story. She was at the right place at the right time.

She had attended Peabody High School only five months when she visited her grandmother Mrs. Emma Imhoff in New York during summer vacation, A friend took her to rehearsals for a Ted Lewis show. She stood in the wings and the music prompted a few steps she had learned from Ruth Fairgrieve's dancing class in East Liberty. An impressed director "caught the act" and from then on her life was changed. She joined the chorus, chaperoned by Grandmother Imhoff on the road tour that followed.

Natural talent kept Sally climbing the ladder of success. From the cho- Often compared to the It Girl'' Clara Bow, Sally Stan-was 14 years old when this photo was taken for her first George White "Scandals." After two seasons in chorus, -he f. -camp dancing teacher. The Pittsburgh Press, Sunday, June 15, I9b8.