Last Ziegfeld girl dies
The young Doris Eaton Travis performed in feathers and silk, and sported Cupid lips and bobbed hair embellished with saucy curls.
President Woodrow Wilson once waved to her from the audience and George Gershwin ("a nice young man") composed at her family piano. By the time she died, she was not only the lastof the legendary "Ziegfeld girls" but one of the few remaining links to the Broadway of the Jazz Age. And Doris was still dancing.
Her final performance on the Great White Way came on April 27 2010, during the Easter Bonnet Competition, Broadway's annual charity show to help Aids victims that she regularly attended. Steadied by two bare-chested young male dancers – at the age of 106, a more than permissible concession to physical frailty – she managed a couple of kicks before departing the stage under her own steam.
How different it had been back in 1918, when Doris was taken on as the youngest ever dancer in the Ziegfeld Follies, the most famous show of its time on Broadway, created by Florenz Ziegfeld 11 years earlier as New York's answer to the Folies Bergère of Paris. The girls were hand-picked by the boss. On his business card Ziegfeld termed himself "Impresario Extraordinaire", an accurate description of a man of boundless energy and ambition, who as much as any other invented modern American show business.The Independent/UK
Cod’s conservation comeback
North Sea cod, once on the brink as a result of decades of over-fishing, has now recovered to an extent that the public should start eating it again with enthusiasm, one of the world's biggest wildlife charities has said.
In a rare wildlife conservation success story,the charity WWF said the fish renowned for its flaky white chunks was being caught sustainably off the shallow cold waters of north and eastern Britain for the first time in a decade. Stocks of the fish have risen by 52 per cent from their historic low four years ago because of a combination of cuts in landing quotas, and conservation techniques which have reduced the number tossed back dead into the sea.
As a result, the EU has increased the British quota for North Sea cod by 16 per cent this year, from 11,216 tonnes to 13,000. Although stocks are still low by historic standards, the recovery could prompt British supermarkets to start stocking North Sea cod again. Most cod in grocery chains and fish and chip shops at present comes from Iceland and the Barents Sea.The Independent/UK
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