Della May Fox was an American singing comedian, whose popularity peaked in the 1890s when the diminutive Fox appeared opposite the very tall DeWolf Hopper in several musicals.
30 Facts About Della Fox
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From 1883 through 1885, the play toured the US Midwest and Canada, and Della Fox was chaperoned by Nellie Page and tutored by Thomas.
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In 1893, Della Fox re-teamed with Hopper in Panjandrum, followed by The Lady or the Tiger in 1894.
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The diminutive, plump Fox became known for her childlike persona and her bobbed hairstyle: the "Della Fox curl" was later imitated by girls across America.
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In December 1901, Della Fox married Jacob David Levy, a diamond broker, in Boston.
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Della Fox recovered and made two more appearances on Broadway: in The West Point Cadet, and her final show, Rosedale.
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Della Fox died at a private sanatorium in New York City in 1913, aged 42.
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Della Fox is buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St Louis, Missouri.
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Della Fox was charming in her daintiness, provoking in her coquetry, a tanalizing atom of feminity.
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Della Fox's archness was not bold nor unwomanly, and her vivacity was well within the bounds of refinement and good taste.
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Della Fox's singing voice, too, was musical, though not over strong.
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Della Fox's Blanche was a delightful creation throughout, but best remembered is the "athletic duet" in which she and Hopper gave amusing pantomimic representations of games of billiards, baseball, and other familiar sports.
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Della Fox was cute, impish, and jaunty in turn as the Crown Prince, and, in addition, was a picture never to be forgotten in her perfect fitting white flannel suit, worn in the second act.
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Miss Della Fox is indescribable as she is audacious and as delicious as she is audacious.
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Della Fox is little, very little beside Mr Hopper's awful bigness, and captivating, and in the fullest sense of the word, she is chic.
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Della Fox is undoubtedly the most popular woman on stage just now.
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Many actresses have elements of success, but Della Fox has success, which is quite a different thing.
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Della Fox has the dash and natural flippancy of a comedienne.
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Della Fox carries mirth in her face and has laughter hidden away in her eyes.
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Della Fox only has to move her foot and the house feels happy, she has only to wink her eye and it laughs, she has only to faint on a barrel and hundred of people are carried away by convulsions of laughter.
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Della Fox has a sort of personal magnetism of mirth about her.
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Disagreeable qualities in the customary performance of Miss Della Fox were not nearly so much in evidence as in some of her other characters.
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Della Fox was not so deliberately affected, she was not so brazen in her assurance.
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Della Fox almost played with discretion, and often she was delightful.
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All in all, Miss Della Fox appeared greatly to her advantage.
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Della Fox is a delightful little fairy with whom to be cast upon desert places.
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Della Fox has a continual childish sparkle of humor, never failing under trials submerging the usual woman, and her distresses are as comic as her escapades of fun.
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Della Fox doesn't think deeply, but she thinks often, and the result of her fleecy little mental efforts are always silvered with a laugh.
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Miss Della Fox has no voice to brag upon, but her personality and piquancy, her earnestness and fund of natural American humor make her an enjoyable singer of tuneful ditties and chic airs.
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Della Fox is a great pet of boys and girls; they believe in Della blindly, and adore her for fooling them.