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age of three. She’d already achieved stardom in vaudeville, performing in light comedy and in her own shows where she did a combination of singing, dancing and impersonations.
As a “mature” actress in her teens and twenties she played roles of increasing importance and won critical acclaim in theatres throughout the country. In the summer of 1920 she played the starring role in Irene and went on tour to Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago.
In Chicago, the famous and irascible critic, Percy Hammond, reviewed her performance with unaccustomed good will: "Miss Shipman is a new star upon this orbit...New to our prairie theatre, she burst out last night at the Garrick...the happiest prima donna I ever saw.”
Accompanied by her mother, this new star sailed for Paris to study Opera and to improve her study of French, Italian and Spanish. Her return to the states was marked by more successes, and she starred in musical revues and comedies in New York and on the road.
Reviewers and critics commented often on her beauty as well as her talent. Famous artists and photographers did her portrait, her name was in giant lights on Broadway, and her life was a whirl of hard work and parties with people like George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Flo Ziegfield, George Jessel, and the Marx brothers.
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