Stars of Vaudeville #735: Billy Gould
Originally from South Africa, Billy Gould was a former newspaperman who became a comedian and song-and-dance man in vaudeville and music hall  in the 1890s. With his first partner Nellie Burt he developed one of the first “flirtation acts”….the couple delivering humorous repartee as they danced. It was Gould who essentially discovered Valeska Suratt when […]
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