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In 1923 Halstead, then director of the Palais Royal Orchestra, predicted for the coming year that even though dance steps may change, the tempo and rhythm will remain about the same as in 1922. And jazz, minus the shrieking and wailing, toned down with even a touch more of the classical than the case in the year now coming to a close, will continue to reign supreme in the popularity of dance fans. "Balance of harmony is the secret," Mr. Halstead said. "Careful selection of instruments and musicians are next in importance, but unless harmony is perfectly balanced, that soft, dreamy effect so necessary in the modern fox trot is lost."{{citation needed|date=September 2017}} The Buescher phone, an unusual instrument for a dance orchestra, is featured in the Palais Royal Orchestra.
The early Henry Halstead Orchestra during the early 1920s was enormously successful at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco for about three years. He
This band broke up in the late summer of 1925. Halstead decided that he would go out on his own and form a band. The band consisted of Abe Maule, Chuck Moll, Craig Leach, Ernie Reed, Glenn Hopkins, Hal Chanslor, Phil Harris, Ross Dugat, Ted Schilling, and Zebe Mann. When they joined Halstead in Seattle, the band was a huge success. In the spring of 1926, the Halstead band went to Los Angeles to play Miller's Lafayette. [[Red Nichols]] joined the band for this opening.
While Halstead and his family were living in San
By May 1946 Halstead sold his interest in the Navajo Ballroom and entered into a partnership with Etienne Noir in the local airport.<ref>The Grizzly 24 May 1946 pg 1</ref> While at the airport he met an old Hollywood acquaintance by the name of Andy Devine who was active in making western films and TV shows. Devine had a partnership in a pilot school with a Hollywood stunt pilot by the name of Dick Probert. The three of them entered into a partnership in the airport and a local restaurant by the name of the Sportsman's Tavern.<ref>The Grizzly 28 Mar 1947 pg 1</ref><ref>The Grizzly 23 May 1947 pg 3</ref>
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Upon leaving the Big Bear area, Halstead and his family moved to San Francisco, where he booked talent at the St. Francis Hotel for a couple of years. For a short time they were in Los Angeles and then by 1953 he was working at the Westward Ho Talent Booking in Phoenix, Arizona. From February 1955 to November 1958 he was owner and operating broker of a real estate company in the Phoenix area. The sign for his real estate office was a yellow sign of a music note. Hasltead was color blind and the only color he could easily see was yellow.
Halstead was married to blues vocalist Marjorie Whitney Halter, who sang with the [[King's Jesters]]. She was born on April 5, 1917. Henry and Marjorie had two children. While they were living in San
Around Halstead and Marjorie were divorced. Halstead continued with real estate business. He worked with Del Webb in creating the Deer Valley section of Phoenix. He was honored by having one of the streets named after him: West Halstead Drive. In the late 1960s Henry moved to California. He lived in San Diego for a short time and died in Hemet, California. He is buried in San Diego.<ref>Conversation with Joan Halstead 21 July 2014</ref>
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<ref name="Coffin2012">{{cite book|author=Lesley L. Coffin|title=Lew Ayres: Hollywood's Conscientious Objector|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rukaBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA9|date=18 October 2012|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-61703-638-5|pages=9–}}</ref>
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