Before ‘talkies’ in the movies and long before television, there was vaudeville. Troupes of singers, dancers, musicians and comedians entertained live, on stage, in theaters. The Orpheum Circuit, for ...

“I am not a Vassar girl. I never went to school a day in my life. I was raised, if you wish to call it that, in vaudeville, going from town to town, playing with musicians, acrobats, dancers, even ...