Alice Delysia

b. Alice LaPize, 3 March 1889, Paris, France, d. 9 February 1979, Brighton, Sussex, England. After appearing in several stage productions in Paris, Delysia played on Broadway in the chorus of The Catch Of The Season (1905). Leading roles soon followed and in 1912 she was back in Paris for The Quaker Girl and other productions. Upon her return to London she took advantage of numerous opportunities to play in revues and musical comedies, especially in adaptations of French works. One of these was Afgar, Ou Les Loisirs Andalous (1919), in which she also appeared in the USA the fo...