Today is the birthday of the great radio singer Vaughn DeLeath (Leonore Vonderleith, 1896-1943). Plus-sized DeLeath dropped out of Mills College in the 1910s to sing professionally in vaudeville. In 1920, she was luck enough to get in on the ground floor of a new medium, radio, which was to be her bread and butter […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:11AM on September 26, 2013