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  • Adopting the name of Eddie Foy, he first angered, then captivated the rugged but sentimental cowboys.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • Such was the nature of ethnic flux in pre-war New York entertainment, Norah Bayes, beloved for her performance of "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" was born Norah Goldberg, while "Jewish" stage star Eddie Foy was actually Edwin Fitzgerald.

    Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Still Life, A Steady Rain, If It Wasn't For the Irish and the Jews 2009

  • Tad Lincoln, Bertha Honore Palmer, Lillian Russell, Flo Ziegfield, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Eddie Foy, and five others each get between two and twenty-two pages telling about their lives, much of it beyond their years at Brown School.

    A Mile Square of Chicago by Marjorie Warvelle Bear ricklibrarian 2008

  • Dora Hand sang with Eddie Foy on the stage of the Comique, and in several bars and honky-tonks.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • As Eddie Foy was arriving in Dodge City with his partner, Jim Thompson, he noted from the train window the enormous piles of buffalo bones.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • If he was frightened, Eddie Foy showed no evidence of it, continuing his jokes all the while.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • In June, the National Vaudeville Association staged a benefit featuring the greatest aggregation of stars ever assembled, including Sophie Tucker, Eva Tanguay, Eddie Foy, and Jim Corbett.

    The Secret Life of Houdini William Kalush 2006

  • In June, the National Vaudeville Association staged a benefit featuring the greatest aggregation of stars ever assembled, including Sophie Tucker, Eva Tanguay, Eddie Foy, and Jim Corbett.

    The Secret Life of Houdini William Kalush 2006

  • He got this gig only because his nephew, Bronco Von Howitzer, who'd trained on low-budget-no-budget seven-day wonders produced at Columbia by Sam Katzman and Joni Taps, and some potboilers for Brynie Foy, one of the Eddie Foy seven little Foys, over at Warners, was launching his Bomblast Productions with this sorry excuse for a musical comedy.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

  • One thinks no worse of Lord Emsworth's grandmother because she looked like Eddie Foy, and had allowed herself to be painted, after the heavy classic manner of some of the portraits of a hundred years ago, in the character of Venus -- suitably draped, of course, rising from the sea; but it was beyond the possibility of denial that her grandson's bullet permanently removed one of

    Something New 1928

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