Singing and acting talent

 

Arizona Daily Star, 3 Nov 1912.

Continuing from yesterday's post, Natalie Dalton was a well known performer in Tucson in the decade of 1910. While she often sang with her cousin Anita Calneh Post, she also appeared in musicals like the one featured above in 1912. Natalie sang in various clubs, such as the Saturday Morning Musical Club, Shakespeare Club, and for fundraising events including the YWCA (where she was treasurer of the Womens Business Club in 1917) and Red Cross dance sponsored by Steinfeld's department store. She continued singing in Tucson events, even after moving to Los Angeles in early 1920.

Tucson Citizen. 4 Dec 1913.

Tucson Citizen. 13 Jan 1918.

Arizona Daily Star. 17 Jun 1917.

During this time in 1916 & 1917, by day Natalie worked as a comptometrist for the Arizona Eastern Railroad in Tucson (where she appears in the California, Railroad Employment Records database on Ancestry). A news clipping from 4 July 1915 shows Natalie among a girls' trip party to Long Beach for the holiday weekend by train to escape the Tucson heat.

Arizona Daily Star, 4 Jul 1915.

Natalie's story shifts toward Los Angeles in 1920 after the death of her mother, and her travels take her further to Central America in the 1920s and 1930s. This will be picked up in the next post.