Cherry, Effie (d. 1944)

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Cherry, Effie (d. 1944)

American vaudeville performer. Died Aug 5, 1944, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; sister of Elizabeth, Jessie, and Addie Cherry.

One of the Cherry Sisters, toured with her four sisters as the Cherry Sisters in Iowa, Kansas, and Illinois; brought to New York by Oscar Hammerstein (1896) to perform at the Olympia.

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