Elizabeth Brice (Bessie Shaler, 1885-1965) by White Studios.
Brice — no relation to Fanny, a Ziegfeld perennial — made her Broadway début in Lee and J. J. Shubert’s THE SOCIAL WHIRL (1906 and 1907); she appeared in the ZIEGFELD FOLLIES of 1913, although the IBDb page for the show does not list her part.
Her Wikipedia page emphasizes her partnership in this period with Charles King (1886-1944), who would later appear in THE BROADWAY MELODY (1929, where he introduced the song “You Were Meant for Me”), THE HOLLYWOOD REVIEW OF 1929 (“Orange Blossom Time”), and CHASING RAINBOWS (1930, “Happy Days are Here Again”). In 1930, Brice and King recorded a dozen duets for the Victor, Columbia, and Brunswick record labels.
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