Devaut, John

John Devaut (1916-1999) was an actor who starred in a number of productions in London, Glasgow, Kidderminster, Manchester and Edinburgh. His godmother was Alice Delysia.

Actress Alice Delysia, whose real name Alice Henriette Lapize (1889 to 1979), was born on 3 March 1889 in Paris. In 1903, she made her first appearance as a chorus girl at the Théâtre du Moulin Rouge in Paris. In 1909, she left the stage and was living with Harry Fragson, singer and composer. However, the couple parted in 1912 and Alice returned to the Paris stage. Alice was discovered by C. B. Cochran in 1913 and taken to London in 1914 to star in his first revue,

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