Gretl Urban Thurlow(1898-1997)

Daughter of well-known Vienna born Joseph Urban, architect, illustrator and designer. Gretl studied in Boston, joined her father's New York studio, created costumes for several of his productions. Worked for Ziegfeld Follies and Metropolitan Opera New York. Followed her father to California, worked in Hollywood 1923-1925. Also 1939 for New York World's Fair, when Billy Rose restored the Ziegfeld Theatre in 1943, she served as a consultant. Between 1950 and her retirement in 1981 she worked for the music publisher Carl Fisher. Lived last at the Holiday Care Center in Toms River, New Jersey.