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• n  a pert or flirtatious young girl
• n  a minor female role as a pert flirtatious lady's maid in a comedy

• His first wife, a beautiful ex-burlesque soubrette named Mercedes Delpino, was his straight woman.
• Her perky looks, easy glamour and a trained soubrette soprano helped enlarge the scope of the parodies the writers could attempt, as on the "Shadow Waltz" sketch, where she sings .
• Actually, Bing himself does not intend to limit Patrice to soubrette roles; for one thing, there are not many in the repertory.

News & Articles

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• Turning Back the Clock
  April 16 — No less than four Olean theaters have display ads in the Olean Times Herald, listing their schedules of live shows or moving pictures for the coming days and nights. The Grand Theatre has Vaudeville as well as Ted Westus and Blanche Boyd, “America’s Sweet Tenor and Dainty Soubrette.
  April 14, 2014 - Olean Times Herald

Quotes

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• Mary Rodgers in New York Times
  Kelli is a phenomenon,said Mary Rodgers Guettel, Richard Rodgers's daughter. "You don't usually find people that pretty who can sing that pretty. And she's grown tremendously as an actress. Kelli was a pretty soubrette a few years ago. Now...