In the late 1920s, this was the hottest woman on Broadway. Her name was Claire Luce (not to be confused with Claire Boothe Luce, the playwright.) Claire had been a Ziegfeld girl (and one can only imagine what you had to do to be "glorified" by Ziggy). She then played a few roles on Broadway, but her big claim to fame was that she was Fred Astaire's second partner.
At the end of the show, Fred grabbed Claire and they danced on the tops of the tables and couched and chairs on the set in an amazing and very dangerous pas de deux. Many times, they fell flat on their faces but gamely got up and repeated the number from the top until they got it right. This was a prelude to Fred's perfectionism in the movies.
Then, of course, as it often does, Hollywood broke Claire's heart. The role she had danced so brilliantly went to a friend of hers. Ginger Rodgers, who became a superstar dancing the same routines in the movie version of "Gay Divorce" which was renamed because in post-Production Code Hollywood, Divorce couldn't be gay.
Claire's biggest shot on Broadway was as Curley's Wife in the original production of "Of Mice and Men". Here she is being saughtered by Broderick Crawford (later of Highway Patrol 10-4 fame, the son of Helen Broderick).
ADDENDUM. I have just been informed that Claire broke her hip dancing the top of the table number with Fred Astaire in Gay Divorce in the London production. This may explain why she was passed over for the lead in the movie.
Here she is in front of Anne Hathaway's cottage (the wife of Shakespeare, not the actress) in Stratford-On-Avon when appearing at the summer festival in 1945, age 42. Wow.