Adele Astaire and a Chinese Parasol

I’ve always been rather interested in Adele Astaire, sister to Fred. In the early, pre-Ginger Rogers, days Fred and Adele were an exhibition dance team and wowed them in both New York and London. In those days in the flapper ’20s Adele was the bigger star of the two. But, in 1932, she married an English lord and basically retired. She was amazingly beautiful and a great dancer – and she once posed with a Chinese parasol, and it’s been a while since we had a parasol on China Rhyming (but did go through a bit of a flurry at one point here, with Zelda Fitzgerald’s parasol and others).