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Died. Trixie Friganza (real name: Brigid O'Callaghan), 83, famed turn-of-the-century musical comedy star (Sally in Our Alley, Hit the Deck) and silent screen comedienne (The Road to Yesterday, Free and Easy), known as vaudeville's "Champagne Girl": at the Sacred Heart Academy in Flintridge, Calif., where she had been living in retirement since...
Arthritis also plagued Trixie Friganza, once brunette-&-bubbly queen of bubbly operettas. She more or less celebrated her 77th birthday abed in Flintridge, Calif...
...sake of Gloria Jean, Singer Crosby abandons the carefree life of a structural steelworker to become a restaurateur. As practiced by Singer Crosby, the restaurant business turns out to be an excuse for a second helping of such old-timers as Female Impersonator Julian Eltinge, veteran Comediennes Trixie Friganza and Blanche Ring, who sings Rings on My Fingers, her song...
...Trixie Friganza, a survival of the age which the Almanac lampoons, floats laughably about the stage, an hilarious Zeppelin brightened with a Mazda smile. "How is my dear old mother tonight?" someone asks her. "Lousy," she replies. Fred Keating, a magician by trade, stuffs birds down his shirt front in a highly invisible manner while acting as master of the rakish ceremonies. Noel Coward, Peter Arno, John McGowan and most admirably Rube Goldberg are implicated in suitable capacities, as is the author of a song called, "I May be Wrong." Credit for the rest of the Almanac's sophisticated...
...Trixie Friganza celebrates her 40th year of fun-making this autumn. She hopes to round out a half-century before retiring. Not sad to her is the thought of what a volatile young thing she used to be. Still volatile, she refuses to think backwards, even to the bird-and-bottle parties at Delmonico's which were lavished upon chorus girls in the age of gallantry. To old codgers in club windows she leaves the memory of how she first starred in Pearl of Peking (1889). Her business is "the laugh business," which she studies seriously. Her last success...