Grace La Rue (born Stella Parsons; April , â€" March , ) was an
American actress, singer, and vaudeville headliner.Grace La Rue was
born Stella Parsons in Kansas City, Missouri, on April , , to Lucy L.
Parsons. She began her career as part of the team Burke and La Rue,
with her first husband, Charles Burke. One of their numbers was a
minstrel piece titled "Grace La Rue and her Inky Dinks". She soon
broke away from the act - and Burke - to appear in musical comedy.La
Rue performed in a number of productions on Broadway debuting in The
Tourists in . She also appeared in The Blue Moon (), Molly May (),
Betsy (), and the and Ziegfeld Follies. In , she married Byron (The
Millionaire Kid) Chandler in Bennington, Vermont. The marriage broke
up in when La Rue divorced, alleging that Chandler was unfaithful and
that he beat her.La Rue made her debut as a Vaudeville single act in
November at Poli's in Springfield, Missouri. As part of the act she
sang an aria from Madame Butterfly, and a duet with a phonograph
recording of Enrico Caruso. Variety gave her a good review commenting
that the act gave La Rue the "opportunity to display her Parisian
cultivated voice."
American actress, singer, and vaudeville headliner.Grace La Rue was
born Stella Parsons in Kansas City, Missouri, on April , , to Lucy L.
Parsons. She began her career as part of the team Burke and La Rue,
with her first husband, Charles Burke. One of their numbers was a
minstrel piece titled "Grace La Rue and her Inky Dinks". She soon
broke away from the act - and Burke - to appear in musical comedy.La
Rue performed in a number of productions on Broadway debuting in The
Tourists in . She also appeared in The Blue Moon (), Molly May (),
Betsy (), and the and Ziegfeld Follies. In , she married Byron (The
Millionaire Kid) Chandler in Bennington, Vermont. The marriage broke
up in when La Rue divorced, alleging that Chandler was unfaithful and
that he beat her.La Rue made her debut as a Vaudeville single act in
November at Poli's in Springfield, Missouri. As part of the act she
sang an aria from Madame Butterfly, and a duet with a phonograph
recording of Enrico Caruso. Variety gave her a good review commenting
that the act gave La Rue the "opportunity to display her Parisian
cultivated voice."
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