Ragged but Right, pt. 5 (Elizabeth Kewley!)

[George Thompson]

OK, this has nothing to do with language, but I like Ms. Kewley!'s spirit:


     Elizabeth Kewley!  Singing and Dancing Soubrette.  Not the Greatest,
but Holding her Own.  [from an ad for Alex. Tolliver's Big Show!, in
*Indianapolis
Freeman*, July 1, 1916]

Lynn Abbott & Doug Seroff. * Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon
Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz*.  University Press of
Mississippi, 2007,  p. 141



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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much since then.

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