Artie Hall

Artie Hall
Artie Hall.jpg
Cover to 1906 "Jessamine" sheet music
Bornc. 1878/or 1881
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Died??Unknown
NationalityAmerican
OccupationVaudeville performer
Spouse(s)Robert Fulgora[1][2]
Artie Hall out of costume.

Artie Hall (c. 1878/or1881โ€“ ?) was an American vaudeville singer and actress, known for her blackface performances as a coon shouter. She was a "petite vocalist with a strong voice".[3] Her most successful role was Topsy in William A. Brady's version of Uncle Tom's Cabin. A controversial part of her act was the removal of a glove to reveal her white skin at the end of a song.[4]

San Francisco Earthquake

Artie Hall is recorded as having died in the collapse of the San Francisco Orpheum Theater during the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake.[5] This apparently was misconstrued, and misquoted by the New York Times before it was discovered she didn't die.[6] Understandably misquotes of communication with newspapers headquartered in New York may have been impaired as telegraph and telephone wires were down in all of the chaos and fire.

Hall was married circa 1899 to an actor called Robert Fulgora. They were divorced by September 1914.[7] He had at least one child, a daughter who survived him, according to his 1947 obituary. Artie is not stated as being the mother.[8]

Her sister, Pauline des Landes (known professionally as Bonita) was also a vaudeville actress.[9][10]

References

  1. ^ Artie Hall Literaethereality.wordpress.com
  2. ^ Monarchs of Minstrelsy from "Daddy" Rice to Date, page 355 by Edward Le Roy Rice c.1911
  3. ^ Armond Fields (2007). Tony Pastor, father of vaudeville. McFarland. p. 170. ISBN 978-0-7864-3054-3.
  4. ^ Lynn Abbott; Doug Seroff (2007). Ragged But Right: Black Travelling Shows, "Coon Songs", and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. 17โ€“20. ISBN 978-1-57806-901-9.
  5. ^ "Artie Hall is killed". New York Times. April 21, 1906....PDF version readout
  6. ^ Los Angeles Herald; ORPHEUM OFFERS GOOD BILL OF VAUDEVILLE; April 24, 1906...Retrieved April 25, 2019
  7. ^ Variety, September 1914 [PDF]
  8. ^ Billboard Magazine, page 46, December 20, 1947
  9. ^ Frank Cullen; Florence Hackman; Donald McNeilly (2007). Vaudeville, old and new. Routledge. p. 499. ISBN 978-0-415-93853-2.
  10. ^ Bismark Daily Tribune WOMAN DRIVING AUTOMOBILE RUNS DOWN 2 GIRLS, 1 BABY; July 24, 1911

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