Today is the birthday of Eva Shirley (Eva Schainbaum, 1891-1982). Shirley began her singing career on the Lower East Side where she was born, built her own orchestra which played everything from jazz to grand opera, and took her act all the way to the Palace. Her heyday was the teens and twenties. A  Variety piece […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:49AM on January 24, 2014