Coots and Shirley "Bad Boys from Good Families"
Vaudeville made for strange bedfellows; this post sent me down an unexpected path to say the least. The Sobels' Pictorial History of Vaudeville informs us that Coots and Shirley billed themselves as "two bad boys from good families". The team consisted of J. Fred Coots (1897-1985) and Walter T. Shirley (1896-1963). Both boys were from […]