Ginger Rogers appears in HOWARD

[Jody]

wHEN YOU ARE LOOKING AT  OLD HOWARD COURANT NEWPAPERS, AT THE LIBRARY, LOOK FO NEWS ABOUT GINGER ROGERS AT THE OPRA HOUSE. 

[Diane Amberg]

 I'd like to see that also. Daddy knew Ginger and her family from OK City. There is some family story about some of them crammed in a rumble seat. If I can get it back out of my old memory, I'll share it.

[W. Gray]

Virginia Katherine McMath was born in Independence, Missouri in 1911. Her house in Independence was just recently made a landmark of some kind by the city council.

A few years back she came back to Independence to help Harry Truman celebrate his birthday and they both gave speeches in the downtown area.

I dont know much about her youth but she won the Texas State Charleston Championship when she was fourteen in 1925. She was on a vaudeville tour after that I think.

Little ones apparently could not pronounce her own name and so it was shorted to Ginja which developed into Ginger.

She was in her first film at age twenty.

[Roma Jean Turner]

I'm sure you have all seen this before, but seemed appropriate.  I believe it is on a greeting card that has Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers on it:

"Ginger Rogers could do everything Fred Astair could.......... and do it going backwards in high heels."