11 Facts About Lizzie Evans

Lizzie Evans was an entertainer in vaudeville and musical theatre in New York City and Chicago, Illinois, from the 1880s into the 20th century.

Lizzie Evans was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio in 1864, although one newspaper report from 1879 already identifies her as touring with the Standard Dramatic Company in a lead role, suggesting an earlier birth year.

Lizzie Evans possibly was the daughter of Sarah Evans, a Welsh-born widow.

Lizzie Evans was the wife of Harry Mills, who was a well-known comedian.

Miss Evans first appeared on the stage at the age of seventeen on August 25,1882, with Barney McAuley as Clip in A Messenger from Jarvis Section.

Lizzie Evans was next seen with Milton and Dolly Nobles in their well-known play, The Phoenix.

Miss Lizzie Evans took the leading part in Our Angel and a number of other plays.

Miss Lizzie Evans, who fills the part around which Fogg's Ferry is built, is a bright little person of the Lotta physique and school, but with less naturalness and more nasal twang.

Lizzie Evans's performance is earnest and vivacious; she emphasizes her comic lines with her nether limbs and feet, more or less in accordance with Shakespeare's advice as to suiting the action to the word and the word to the action, but always with a marked effect upon the spectator, and her pathos, although scarcely profound, is a good deal more genuine and touching than that of her prototype.

Miss Lizzie Evans has no voice for song, and her cleverness as an actress is sufficiently appreciable to warrant her avoidance of vocal efforts.

Lizzie Evans returned to her favorite role of Chip, the character in which she had made her debut when she was only seventeen years old.