George Walker and Ada Overton Walker in In Dahomey

Miss Ada Overton Walker and Mr George Walker, performing "The Tsar of Dixie" a song in the play In Dahomey at the Shaftesbury Theatre in 1903. The Tatler reports that the play was "produced with great success at Boston last September, is written and played by coloured people'. Aida Overton Walker (1880 - 1914), also billed as Ada Overton Walker and as "The Queen of the Cakewalk", was an African-American vaudeville performer, actress, singer, dancer, choreographer, and wife of vaudevillian George Walker. The mentions how Ada/Aida had made the cakewalk popular among the Four Hundred - the top rungs of New York society

Aida Cakewalk Dahomey Monocle Oct19 Overton Shaftesbury Vaudeville

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