The Sigma Nu Revue's programme: Hilda Webb in the chorus of 'Birmingham's most beautiful maidens' and the Vogue Revue (advance notice)
3 May 1925 · The Birmingham Age-Herald (Birmingham, Ala.)
Named here: Hilda Webb
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... "The chorus consists of 20 of Birmingham's most beautiful maidens. They are being trained by Mrs. Maybelle Sawyer, who so ably handled the News Revue chorus, and talen[t] it being reproduced into more and more talent, and in the form of this beautiful chorus, upon which the beauty, song, pep and laughs of the revue borders is based upon.
"This will be one night of pep, enjoyment, and thrills. The old will forget their troubles, and the young's fancy will turn to love, and we will all be happy when we see this famous presentation of talent. Be there at 8 o'clock. Get your tickets from any sig, from Clark and Jones Piano store, or Augusta Friedman's Shop, and do so early as they are going like hot cakes."
The program follows:
Prolugue [sic], Mr. Alfred H. Eubank.
We Love You, words by Andrew (Jack) Klien, Misses Caroline Shields Clementine Allen, Elizabeth Boatrice, Daisy Hoover, Virginia Mills, Eula Martin, Nellie Kincaid, Francis Brook, Elva Lavies, Julia Newman, Eugenia Perry, Hilda Webb, Elizabeth Stephenson, Nellie Mae McGrail, Ann Jo Morrison and Cassie Crowson.
Synco-pash, synco-passion, The Collegians. Introducing Miss Sara Hankins with Messrs. David DeLaney, James Dillard, Ashur Bragan, Joe Heacock James Sulshy, Aubrey Miree and Doug Braswell.
Ditty and Ditties, Maybe a Balyard, Scrap Iron Quartet. Tom Kelly, Lacey Cowart, Osce Bently and Alfred Eubank.
Augusta Friedman's Vogue Revue. Models: Mildred Adams, Nellie Mae McGrail, Ann Jo Morrison, Eugenia Perry, Betty Stephenson, Elva Lavies, Hilda Webb, Nellie Kincaid, Clem Allen, Jimmy Lou Jordan. [The programme continues.]
Citation: [The Sigma Nu Revue, advance notice and programme], The Birmingham Age-Herald (Birmingham, Ala.), Sunday 3 May 1925, society, club and feature section, p. 38, cols. 1–2; image, Chronicling America, Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85038485/1925-05-03/ed-1/?sp=38).
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| Person | Fact | Document says | Tree says | Assessment |
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| Hilda Webb | Performance | Listed in the chorus ("20 of Birmingham's most beautiful maidens") and among the models of the Vogue Revue in the programme of the Sigma Nu Revue, to be given at 8 o'clock (on Monday 4 May 1925, at Phillips High School) | Nothing | new |