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Gloria Dawn Evans was born in Port Melbourne on 26 February 1929. In 1939 she toured with other talented youngsters in the Tivoli Gang. In 1941, when she was 12, her mother launched her at the Tivoli as an adult soubrette. In 1949 Dawn made her musical comedy debut in Little Nellie Kelly and Sunny for Will Mahoney at the Cremorne. In 1959 Garnet H. Carroll gave Gloria Dawn the coveted Carol Burnett role in his production of the musical Once Upon a Mattress at the Princess in Melbourne. The ‘unactressy’ actress ‘Gloria Dawn was brought up in variety as part of the razzamatazz of the Tivoli era,’ wrote Katharine Brisbane, ‘and in her later years, she brought that same vitality, roughness, and single-minded professionalism to the legitimate theatre – sometimes to its consternation. She was in the business because she was born to it and knew nothing else.’ For more very interesting info about this beautiful women check the website: liveperformance.com.au/hof-profile/gloria-dawn-1929-1978/

Anita Martell was a famous juggler. Her name on her marriage certificate is down as Nita Janette Davidson her father was John Davidson stage name Jack Martell. Most likely he was a Music Hall Artist as well but was never as famous as his daughter. She was a juggler and told jokes during her act. She was in shows in Australia, America and the UK. She married twice once in 1940 to Len Young and then in 1951 to Roger Price they got divorced in 1951 she was on his radio show called "How To" during 1951. She appeared in two films called: The Private Wore Skirts or Never Wave at a WAC (1953) Botany Bay (1953). She came back to London in 1957 and was planning on staying for a year but i can't find anything about her after her arrival or even if she went back to America. Source: www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=586489.0#:~:text=....

Anita Martell (birth name Nita Janette Davidson) was an English talking comedy juggler in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. She was the daughter of the English Music Hall comedian Jack Martell and Irish singer Mona O’Leary. She appeared in two films called ‘The Private Wore Skirts or Never Wave at a WAC’ (1953) and ‘Botany Bay’ (1953). She also appeared in a British Pathe film, which you can view below. She was a cousin of Veronica Martell, who was also a juggler. Source: www.juggle.org/11-more-female-juggling-stars-of-the-past/

The Geisha, a story of a tea house is an Edwardian musical comedy in two acts. The score was composed by Sidney Jones to a libretto by Owen Hall, with lyrics by Harry Greenbank. Additional songs were written by Lionel Monckton and James Philp. The Geisha opened in 1896 at Daly's Theatre in London's West End, produced by George Edwardes. The original production had the second-longest run of any musical up to that time. The cast starred Marie Tempest and C. Hayden Coffin, with dancer Letty Lind and comic Huntley Wright. The show was an immediate success abroad, with an 1896 production in New York and numerous tours and productions in Europe and beyond. It continued to be popular until World War II and even beyond to some degree. The most famous song from the show is "The Amorous Goldfish".[1] Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geisha