Minor Player / Variety Act for the week ending
Saturday, 20 May 2009

Lizzie Fletcher (fl. late 19th/early 20th Century),
British music hall serio-comic

Lizzie Fletcher

(photo: unknown, England, circa 1906)

Lizzie Fletcher, a minor music hall comedienne and singer, whose career appears to have begun in the mid 1890s and ended about 1910, is known for songs such as 'Sister Ria,' dating from 1895, about a Salvation Army lass who joined the ballet at the Empire, and 'If You Want to Know Any More, Ask the Driver.' * * * * * * * *

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