Mona Vivian
Mona Vivian was a popular English pantomime stage artist in the early years of the twentieth century.
Early life
Mona Vivian was born Annie Mona Jessie Vivian in Aston, Warwickshire. Her parents were William Henry Robert Vivian and Anne Griffith. She began her stage career at a young age, performing as the character "Wee Mona".Acting career
She performed in local pantomime, notably in Blackpool, performing as "Mona Vivian and her Blackpool Wavelets", where she sang of leaving half her tights on the flying trapeze, and swayed her hips in imitation of Mae West, saying "Say, don't anybody recognise the motions". She would tell a member of the orchestra that his name must be Nero because "I'm burning up - while he's fiddling".In 1921 she made a recording with the London Hipprodrome Orchestra.