Vera Olcott: From Cooch Dancer to Countess
An acknowledgment today of dancer Vera Olcott (1893-?), who led a strange, wonderful and still-mysterious life. Olcott was apparently from a family of wealthy international bankers and financiers, although her father was a railroad detective. Born and raised in Philadelphia, she turns up as early as 1905 (when she was only 13) in New York, […]