LUCAS, MARIE

LUCAS, MARIE. Society dance-orchestra leader (c1880s in Denver, Colorado; 26 (?) April 1947 in New York, New York). She came from a musical family: her father was the celebrated minstrel Sam Lucas, and her mother, Carrie Melvin Lucas , was a violinist and cornetist. Marie received musical training from her parents, at schools in Nottingham, England, and at the Boston [Massachusetts] Conservatory. She began her professional career in the musical show, The Red Moon (1909), written and produced...