Lillian Shaw: Naughty Character Comedienne on the Big Time
Lillian Shaw (ca. 1886-1978) was too important a stage star in her day to be as forgotten as she is now, even among theater buffs. As her outline emerges she seems to have had an act you might place between somewhere Fanny Brice’s and Sophie Tucker’s, and you might compare her to Eva Tanguay for […]