Dancer, actor, novelist, and teacher. He danced with Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn's company, later with Ted Shawn's Men Dancers. He left Ted Shawn's company in 1935 to form a partnership with Miriam Winslow, another Denishawn alumnus. They performed together for many years, appearing with the Boston, Detroit, and Toronto Symphonies, engagements at the Guild Theatre in New York City and at the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center, and a five-month South American tour in 1941. His novel Bright Leaf, loosely based on the Duke tobacco dynasty in North Carolina, was made into a film in 1950, starring Gary Cooper, Lauren Bacall, and Patricia Neal. In 1976 he was awarded the North Carolina Award, the highest civilian honor awarded by the state.
Dancer, actor, novelist, and teacher. He danced with Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn's company, later with Ted Shawn's Men Dancers. He left Ted Shawn's company in 1935 to form a partnership with Miriam Winslow, another Denishawn alumnus. They performed together for many years, appearing with the Boston, Detroit, and Toronto Symphonies, engagements at the Guild Theatre in New York City and at the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center, and a five-month South American tour in 1941. His novel Bright Leaf, loosely based on the Duke tobacco dynasty in North Carolina, was made into a film in 1950, starring Gary Cooper, Lauren Bacall, and Patricia Neal. In 1976 he was awarded the North Carolina Award, the highest civilian honor awarded by the state.
