HENDERSON, ROSA DESCHAMPS

HENDERSON, ROSA DESCHAMPS. Vaudeville/musicals singer (24 November 1896 in Henderson, Kentucky; 6 April 1968 in New York, New York). She began performing professionally about 1913 in her uncle's tent show and thereafter toured with various carnivals, tent, and vaudeville shows. She sang in duo acts with her husband Douglas (Slim) Henderson (1927-1928) and in trios with Douglas and John Mason . During the 1920s she was active in theatrical productions in New York, particularly in...