Originally posted in 2011 Ella Shields (born this day in 1879) was a male impersonator and a rare American export to the British music halls. A Baltimore native she started out in a sister act in American vaudeville in 1898. Billed as the Southern Nightingale, she crossed the puddle to try the halls in 1904. […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:39PM on September 26, 2013