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Love Triangle on the Baseball Diamond
Trixie Friganza, (pseudonym for Delia O'Callahan) famous vaudeville star and suffragist, was the only singer to appear in two cameos on the cover of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." Her plans to marry Jack Norworth the week after his divorce from his first wife were dashed when he married Nora Bayes (pseudonym, for Dora Goldberg). Bayes was a popular stage singer who starred in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1908 with Norworth. They married a week after their first performance and for a short time became America's top celebrity couple. They divorced in 1913. A quote by Bayes about her ex-husband appears in her 1928 Washington Post obituary: "He certainly had the rah-rah look. Mr. Norworth and I were known as the happiest couple on stage. We were -- on the stage."
Otto Sarony, photographer. Trixie Friganza, 1907.
Nora Bayes, n.d. Baines News Service. |