Despite her date of
birth appearing almost everywhere online as 1904, Mabel was actually
born in 1899, and made her debut on Rythmodik rolls in 1914,
specialising in ragtime and popular vaudeville pieces.
Born into a family
of performers and musicians, she studied voice and piano in
Switzerland and then attended the New York School of Music. At age
16 she left school and toured the country, performing as a pianist
and concert singer as well as a dancer in vaudeville acts, but her
fame came later as a composer.
Mabel Wayne and L. Wolfe
Gilbert
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