Word: wayburn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Edward Claudius ("Ned") Wayburn, 68, veteran Broadway director, the U.S. theater's most famed dance teacher of the '205; in Manhattan. Once a ragtime pianist, he was 28 when he directed his first show (the Four Cohans in The Governor's Son). He looked like a banker, directed like a mule skinner. He helped the Shuberts, Klaw & Erlanger, and Florenz Ziegfeld pretty up their musicals; taught stage technique to such greats as Marilyn Miller, the Astaires, Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson; was thrice a millionaire, once a bankrupt...