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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Blossom Seeley as "Roxie" of Chicago is the "sex appeal" of the production. Vividly blond, with a Tanguay voice, and costumes to match, she is the most contagious if not the stellar light of the edition. Miss Grace Brinkley in the lead is very beautiful and very dumb. As an ingenue Laura Lee she manages to hold down her end of the flighty show rather well. As for the males in the cast, no one but Dr. George Rockwell was enabled or deserved to occupy the spotlight unduly long. After much perserverance he managed to exhaust the resistance...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/26/1928 | See Source »

Married. Eva Tanguay, 49, vaudeville headliner, to Alexander Booke, her pianist; at La Habra. Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 8, 1927 | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...ancestor, Americana, be it recorded that William Collier calls Charles A. Lindbergh a "fly-by-nighter," that Marie Cahill recites a telephone monologue, that Evelyn Bennett dances like chained lightning, that Knox Herold catches the stern spirit of Bill Hart in a movie burlesque. Miss Bennett,* whilom "Baby Eva Tanguay" of vaudeville, looks like a street cherub with the legs of a high-jumper. So pronounced is her dancing ability, it is a shame she is allowed to spoil her effects by squeaking forth in song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 13, 1927 | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

Married. Eva Tanguay, 48, plump, red-haired vaudeville comedienne, who played Cedric Errol in Little Lord Fauntleroy; to one Allan Parado, 25, her Hungarian accompanist, secretly, a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 14, 1927 | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

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