Today is the birthday of Karyl Norman (1896-1947). Billed as the “Creole Fashion Plate”, the female impersonator is sadly best known from the twist Groucho Marx gave his stage name, “The Queer Old Fashion Plate”. A major star of the big time Orpheum circuit in the mid 1920s, his act differed from most other drag artists [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:55AM on June 13, 2012