Today is the birthday of Nellie Wallace (Eleanor Jane Wallis Taylor, 1870-1948). A second generation performer, she was born in Glasgow, and began singing and dancing with her two sisters onstage in childhood. At age 12, she branched out on her own, starting out as a clog dancer. (A pregancy at age 15 could well have [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:15AM on March 18, 2013