Mabel Berra
Mabel Berra was a vaudeville star in the early twentieth century who became known as the "Venus of Vaudeville". She was a comic singer who performed on tour and on Broadway. Her vaudeville act became popular when she was still in her teens.
Personal life
Berra was born in Crestline, Ohio in 1886 and raised in Toledo, Ohio, the daughter of John Berra and Sarah "Sadie" Stiner. She married Charles Allen.Career
Berra debuted in Toledo in 1902 when she was sixteen years old and later appeared and toured throughout North America. In 2011 and 2012, she appeared on Broadway in The Enchantress. Later in 2012, she was the leading lady, Lulu Von Linden, in the Eternal Waltz, a Vienese operetta, which opened October 31, 1912, in Milwaukee, and then toured. She met her future husband, Charles, in 1913 during this show.She toured twice in Europe, but she had to cancel her third European engagement, to star in operatic roles in Vienna, due to the outbreak of World War I. After this, she toured on the vaudeville circuits. At the height of her popularity, she earned $850 a week on the Keith vaudeville circuit.