Mademoiselle Dazie

Daisy Ann Peterkin (September 16, 1884 – August 12, 1952), known by the stage name Mlle. Dazie, was an American vaudeville and Ziegfeld Follies dancer at the turn of the 20th century. She was a toe-dancer.

Biography

Born on September 16, 1884, in St. Louis, Dazie's first appearance in vaudeville was as "Le Domino Rouge" in an act where she wore a red mask.^[1] After she got rid of the mask, she was billed as "Mlle. Dazie" and it was under this name that she appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies. She toured the B. F. Keith Circuit in a ballet pantomime, L'Amour d'Artiste, and headlined the Palace in 1917 in another ballet pantomime directed by Herbert Brenon.^[2] She headlined The Garden of Punchinello ballet directed by Herbert Brenon at the Palace.^[1] She also appeared in La Belle Paree. Her last stage performance was in Aphrodite, in 1919.^[1]

She married Cornelius Fellowes,^[3] president of the St. Nicholas Hygeia Ice Company and son of a famous horseman.^[4] A prize-winning racehorse (a thoroughbred mare) named after her has lineage including several successful racehorses.^[5]

She died on August 12, 1952, in Miami Beach, aged 67.^{[citation needed]}

Legacy

Gladys Brockwell played Mlle. Dazie in the silent film Spangles, 1926.

Broadway

The Belle of New York, January 22, 1900
Ziegfeld Follies of 1907, July 8, 1907
Ziegfeld Follies of 1908, June 15, 1908
La Belle Paree / Bow-Sing / Tortajada, March 20, 1911
La Belle Paree, September 11, 1911
The Merry Countess, August 20, 1912
Maid in America, February 18, 1915
Aphrodite, November 24, 1919

Films

The Black Panther's Cub, 1921 ^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Slide, Anthony (1994). The encyclopedia of vaudeville. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. p. 125. hdl:2027/mdp.49015002919356. OCLC 756413129.
^ Slide 1994, pp. 124–5
^ Stars of Vaudeville: Mlle Dazie
^ Women Vaudeville Stars: Eighty Biographical Profiles by Armond Fields, 2006, p. 203
^ Mademoiselle Dazie, AllBreedPedigree.com. Accessed November 13, 2022.
^ Mademoiselle Dazie at IMDb

External links

Mademoiselle Dazie at the Internet Broadway Database

[encyc-1] Slide, Anthony (1994). The encyclopedia of vaudeville. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. p. 125. hdl:2027/mdp.49015002919356. OCLC 756413129.

[Slide-124-5-2] Slide 1994, pp. 124–5

[3] Stars of Vaudeville: Mlle Dazie

[4] Women Vaudeville Stars: Eighty Biographical Profiles by Armond Fields, 2006, p. 203

[5] Mademoiselle Dazie, AllBreedPedigree.com. Accessed November 13, 2022.

[6] Mademoiselle Dazie at IMDb

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