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Enid Watkins (July 23, 1890 - January 5, 1971), was a soprano singer, and a dancer who performed Native American dance in the 1910s.[1][2]
Biography
She was born on July 23, 1890 in Chicago, Illinois to William Watkins and Sara Jane Leonard. She married Armin Degener. She died on January 5, 1971 in California.[3]
References
- ^ "Miss Watkins in Indian Songs". New York Times. January 11, 1917. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00716FE3E5C1B728DDDA80994D9405B878DF1D3. Retrieved 2011-01-27.
- ^ "Enid Watkins". The Musical monitor. 1914. http://books.google.com/books?id=-QAtAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA260&dq=%22enid+watkins%22+indian&hl=en&ei=qt1ATcvvBcL7lwf_paDCAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22enid%20watkins%22%20indian&f=false. Retrieved 2011-01-27. "Enid Watkins, a California girl, who has made a study of the Zuni tribes of the Southwest, sang a group of Indian songs in costume at the Plaza, New York, recently, in a new series, of entertainments, under direction of Mrs. R.W. ..."
- ^ "Gateman Looks Back on Flamboyant Past". Los Angeles Times. March 21, 1972. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/680084062.html?dids=680084062:680084062&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=May+21,+1972&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=LION+COUNTRY+SAFARI&pqatl=google. Retrieved 2011-01-27. "Armin Degener could have answered the tourist in French or German ... and theater notices about his wife soprano Enid Watkins who died last January ..."
Categories:- 1890 births
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