Talk:Susie Sutton

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Did you know... that 1920s actress Susie Sutton created her own vaudeville troupe and toured her company throughout the TOBA circuit?

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Same person?

Hey, @FloridaArmy:, is the person discussed here the same Susie Sutton? Silver seren^C 05:24, 22 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Found a photo here that might be usable (bottom, far left). Silver seren^C 06:20, 22 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 00:25, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that 1920's actress Susie Sutton created her own vaudeville troupe and toured her company throughout the TOBA circuit? Source: "Susie Sutton Company. Vaudeville troupe, active 1926. Headed by and starring Susie Sutton. This company toured the TOBA circuit in that year and played an engagement at the Bijou Theater in Nashville, TN." - pg. 190 The African American Theatre Directory, 1816-1960
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Peter Pharoah
- Comment: The article was moved from draftspace to mainspace in this edit.

Created by Silver seren (talk) and FloridaArmy (talk). Nominated by Silver seren (talk) at 23:41, 23 December 2021 (UTC).[reply]

My first reaction is that the article does an okay job with describing her acting career but will leave the reader wondering regarding other biographical details. Even the most basic such as where and when born, where and when died are absent. From this clip in the New York Age Defender she died in February 1956, lived in The Bronx in New York, and had the full name Susie Sutton Brown. From this clip in the same paper she had been ill the year before. So it's worth taking another look through WP:LIBRARY resources to see if more can be found. Wasted Time R (talk) 22:19, 27 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for finding those. I must have missed the text buried in those other sections. It's a lot to scour through. At the same time, however, African American actors of that time period were covered more for their theatrical activities and weren't given long biographical exposes like others did. Even just the noting of her death, as you've shown, is a single line buried in a massive news article of random information. I don't know how likely it is to find stuff about her early life beyond what we already have. But I'll check. Silver seren^C 22:27, 27 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I really can't find anything else, Wasted Time R. Silver seren^C 23:09, 27 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I've only found a few additional things, nothing major, although this does give a later theatre group she was in: Black, Cheryl. "'New Negro' performance in art and life: Fredi Washington and the theatrical columns of The People's Voice, 1943-47." Theatre History Studies 24 (2004): 57+. Gale General OneFile (accessed December 28, 2021). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A118742368/ITOF?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=33a06f42.

So doing rest of review. Article length okay at 2588 B (434 words) readable prose size. Article move to mainspace date okay. Neutrality and sourcing okay. QPQ done. Hook length well within limits and hook sourcing verified. Wasted Time R (talk) 22:25, 28 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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