Given that children she received dance tuition out of good Mrs. Thorp in the midtown Manhattan. Up to 1897, once graduating out of Thorp’s dance university, she toured briefly with Black Patti’s Troubadours. A spouse invited the lady in order to model to have a marketing having Bert Williams and you may George Walker, who’d simply obtained a knock within vaudeville first from the Koster and you can Bial’s Musical Hallway. She provided to design towards the offer and you will after that joined brand new guys to moving from the cakewalk finale. Shortly after signing up for John W. Isham’s Octoroon, a critic for the Indianapolis Freeman declared, “I had only seen ideal woman performer.” Having Grace Halliday she designed the fresh new sister dancing work regarding Overton and you may Halliday. They did because the group of Honolulu Belles regarding the Williams and you will Walkers’ The insurance policy Players (1899), and you may from there, Overton started to develop once the a soloist with good-sized jobs. Throughout the audio comedy The brand new Sons from Ham (1900) she carried out and you may danced “Miss Hannah out of Savannah” and you may “Best Ladies”; plus the next release, “Society” and you can “Sparkling Ruby” and therefore lead her jubilant recognition. Tom Fletcher recalled the woman just like the a singer just who performed ragtime music and ballads as well; and as a performer “just who you are going to would almost anything, no matter if this try money-and-wing, cakewalk, otherwise some form of grotesque moving . . . Continuarea →