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'@@ -3,25 +3,27 @@ {{Infobox person -|name = Charlotte Lamberton -|image = CharlotteLambertonCourierJournal.png -|caption = -|birth_date = October 6, 1917 -|birth_place = -|death_date = -|death_place = -|other_names = Charlotte Drolet -|known_for = -|occupation = dancer +| name = Charlotte Lamberton +| image = CharlotteLambertonCourierJournal.png +| caption = +| birth_date = October 6, 1917 +| birth_place = [[Idaho]] +| death_date = +| death_place = +| other_names = Charlotte Drolet (married name) +| known_for = +| occupation = dancer }} -'''Frances Charlotte Lamberton''' (born October 6, 1917) was a [[deaf]] vaudeville and ballroom dancer. +'''Frances Charlotte Lamberton''' (born October 6, 1917) was a [[deaf]] [[vaudeville]] and [[Ballroom dance|ballroom dancer]]. -Lamberton was born in Idaho to Ethel (Clark) Lamberton and Frank Lamberton, an insurance broker.<ref name="Ancestry">{{cite web | title= Idaho, U.S., Birth Records, 1861-1919 | website=Ancestry | date=2021-06-15 | url=https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/159490:8973?_phsrc=98493757&_phstart=successSource&gsfn=Charlotte&gsln=Lamberton&ml_rpos=1&queryId=ba6ee27adbc39c505f71a374db624490 | access-date=2023-04-28}}</ref> She had two brothers Henry (Charles) and Jack who was killed in a train accident in 1931.<ref name="FS">{{cite web | title=Charlotte Lamberton - Census - United States Census, 1920 | website=FamilySearch.org | url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDCL-FFB | access-date=2023-04-28}}</ref> Both Charlotte and Charles were born deaf.<ref name="TCJ">{{cite news |last1=Taylor |first1=Marjorie |title=This Job Done By Mother and Children |url=https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/108375375/ |access-date=28 April 2023 |work=The Courier-Journal |date=October 16, 1942 |location=Louisville, KY |page=10}}</ref> They were not allowed to learn [[sign language]] but instead were homeschooled in [[oralism]] by their mother and attended Los Angeles Day School for the Deaf.<ref name="VR">{{cite journal |last1=Montague |first1=Harriet |title=Who Shall Set Limitations? A Story of Two Deaf Dancers |journal=The Volta Review |date=July 1938 |volume=40 |issue=7 |pages=400–402 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_volta-review_1938-07_40_7/page/400/mode/2up |access-date=28 April 2023}}</ref> Both learned to speak and sign as they got older.<ref name="TCJ" /> Charlotte took dancing lessons starting at five years old because her mother wanted to "make [her] normal like other kids.<ref name="MH">{{cite news |last1=Bellamy |first1=Jeanne |title=Young Brother and Suster, Professional Dancers, Do a Floor Performance to Music They Can Not Hear |url=https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/617406476/ |access-date=28 April 2023 |work=Miami Herald |date=January 9, 1938 |page=45}}</ref> She would often dance with her brother Charles but when he became a teenager he was diagnosed with a weak heart and Charlotte mostly danced alone.<ref name="VR" /> The family moved to Southern California and she started performing professionally in Hollywood when she was eleven.<ref name="MH" /> When she was fourteen she was being billed in stage shows as "The Exquisite Charlotte."<ref name="JCPC">{{cite news |last1=Ross |first1=George |title=New Night Club Star Hears and Dances With Her Feet |url=https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/584726805/ |access-date=28 April 2023 |work=Johnson City Press-Chronicle |date=March 1, 1936 |page=16}}</ref> +Lamberton was born in Idaho to Ethel (Clark) Lamberton and Frank Lamberton, an insurance broker.<ref name="Ancestry">{{cite web | title= Idaho, U.S., Birth Records, 1861-1919 | website=Ancestry | date=2021-06-15 | url=https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/159490:8973?_phsrc=98493757&_phstart=successSource&gsfn=Charlotte&gsln=Lamberton&ml_rpos=1&queryId=ba6ee27adbc39c505f71a374db624490 | access-date=2023-04-28}}</ref> At age 2, the family lived in [[Mountain Home, Idaho]].<ref>"United States Census, 1920", database with images, ''FamilySearch'' (<nowiki>https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDCL-FFB</nowiki> : 1 February 2021), Charlotte Lamberton in entry for Frank S Lamberton, 1920.</ref> She had two brothers, Henry (Charles) and Jack who was killed in a train accident in 1931.<ref name="FS">{{cite web | title=Charlotte Lamberton - Census - United States Census, 1920 | website=FamilySearch.org | url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDCL-FFB | access-date=2023-04-28}}</ref> Both Charlotte and Charles were born deaf.<ref name="TCJ">{{cite news |last1=Taylor |first1=Marjorie |date=October 16, 1942 |title=This Job Done By Mother and Children |page=10 |work=[[The Courier-Journal]] |location=Louisville, KY |url=https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/108375375/ |access-date=28 April 2023 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> They were not allowed to learn [[sign language]] but instead were homeschooled in [[oralism]] by their mother and attended [[Los Angeles Day School for the Deaf]].<ref name="VR">{{cite journal |last1=Montague |first1=Harriet |title=Who Shall Set Limitations? A Story of Two Deaf Dancers |journal=The Volta Review |date=July 1938 |volume=40 |issue=7 |pages=400–402 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_volta-review_1938-07_40_7/page/400/mode/2up |access-date=28 April 2023}}</ref> Both learned to speak and sign as they got older.<ref name="TCJ" /> -Lamberton was booked for two weeks at the Hollywood Restaurant in New York which turned into a 28-week engagement.<ref name="TCJ"/><ref name="BDE">{{cite news |title=The Magnificent Lambertons |url=https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/52659560/ |access-date=28 April 2023 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |date=May 29, 1936 |page=9}}</ref> Charles, who had received a clean bill of health, joined her and they went on tour starring in [[Dave Apollon|Dave Apollon's Revue]], touring the country and gaining national fame.<ref name="TIME">{{cite web | title=Medicine: Discontented Mutes | website=TIME.com | date=1937-08-09 | url=https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,758098,00.html | access-date=2023-04-28}}</ref><ref name="DFP">{{cite news |title=Charles and Charlotte Lamberton Dancers Extraordinary |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/11968677/charles-and-charlotte-lamberton-dancers/ |access-date=28 April 2023 |work=Detroit Free Press |date=Nov 1, 1936 |page=22}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Phillips |first1=Robert B. |title=Dave Apollon Back on Stage in Captiol Stage Show |url=https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/866065085/ |access-date=28 April 2023 |work=Evening Star |date=December 12, 1936 |location=Washington D. C. |page=36}}</ref> Charles stopped dancing in 1940 again due to declining health and then to join the war effort. Charlotte later performed alone, and claimed to be "the only solo dancer in the country without the sense of hearing."<ref name="PPH">{{cite news |title=Novelty Acts Head Civic Stage Bill |url=https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/847967208/ |access-date=28 April 2023 |work=Portland Press-Herald |date=May 7, 1944 |page=27}}</ref><ref name="CP">{{cite news |last1=Freeman |first1=Norine |title=Patience won Handicapped Girl a Career |url=https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/762239839/ |access-date=28 April 2023 |work=The Cincinnati Post |date=June 12, 1941 |page=22}}</ref> +Charlotte took dancing lessons starting at five years old because her mother wanted to "make [her] normal like other kids.<ref name="MH">{{cite news |last1=Bellamy |first1=Jeanne |date=January 9, 1938 |title=Young Brother and Suster, Professional Dancers, Do a Floor Performance to Music They Can Not Hear |page=45 |work=[[Miami Herald]] |url=https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/617406476/ |access-date=28 April 2023 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She would often dance with her brother Charles but when he became a teenager he was diagnosed with a weak heart and Charlotte mostly danced alone.<ref name="VR" /> The family moved to Southern California and she started performing professionally in Hollywood when she was eleven.<ref name="MH" /> By 1930, the family lived in [[Long Beach, California|Long Beach]].<ref>"United States Census, 1930," database with images, ''FamilySearch'' (<nowiki>https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCJK-VBL</nowiki> : accessed 5 May 2023), Charlotte Lamberton in household of Frank S Lamberton, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 1071, sheet 4A, line 7, family 107, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 129; FHL microfilm 2,339,864.</ref> When she was fourteen, she was being billed in stage shows as "The Exquisite Charlotte."<ref name="JCPC">{{cite news |last1=Ross |first1=George |title=New Night Club Star Hears and Dances With Her Feet |url=https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/584726805/ |access-date=28 April 2023 |work=Johnson City Press-Chronicle |date=March 1, 1936 |page=16}}</ref> -When asked how she could dance to music she could not hear, Lamberton explained "Do I feel it through my feet? No but that's what everyone asks. I feel it through my arms, my legs, my body. It comes to me in a faint sort of pulsation, in rhythmic beats that are like waves... Oh I can't explain it!"<ref name="SLGD">{{cite news |title=They Dance To Music They Cannot Hear |url=https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/clip/123655897/charles-and-charlotte-lamberton/ |work=St. Louis Globe-Democrat |date=October 25, 1936 |page=64}}</ref> +Lamberton was booked for two weeks at the Hollywood Restaurant in New York which turned into a 28-week engagement.<ref name="TCJ" /><ref name="BDE">{{cite news |date=May 29, 1936 |title=The Magnificent Lambertons |page=9 |work=[[The Brooklyn Daily Eagle]] |url=https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/52659560/ |access-date=28 April 2023 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Charles, who had received a clean bill of health, joined her and they went on tour starring in [[Dave Apollon|Dave Apollon's Revue]], touring the country and gaining national fame.<ref name="TIME">{{cite web |date=1937-08-09 |title=Medicine: Discontented Mutes |url=https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,758098,00.html |access-date=2023-04-28 |website=[[TIME]]}}</ref><ref name="DFP">{{cite news |date=Nov 1, 1936 |title=Charles and Charlotte Lamberton Dancers Extraordinary |page=22 |work=[[Detroit Free Press]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/11968677/charles-and-charlotte-lamberton-dancers/ |access-date=28 April 2023 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Phillips |first1=Robert B. |date=December 12, 1936 |title=Dave Apollon Back on Stage in Captiol Stage Show |page=36 |work=[[Evening Star]] |location=Washington D. C. |url=https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/866065085/ |access-date=28 April 2023 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Charles stopped dancing in 1940 again due to declining health and then to join the war effort. Charlotte later performed alone, and claimed to be "the only solo dancer in the country without the sense of hearing."<ref name="PPH">{{cite news |title=Novelty Acts Head Civic Stage Bill |url=https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/847967208/ |access-date=28 April 2023 |work=Portland Press-Herald |date=May 7, 1944 |page=27}}</ref><ref name="CP">{{cite news |last1=Freeman |first1=Norine |date=June 12, 1941 |title=Patience won Handicapped Girl a Career |page=22 |work=[[The Cincinnati Post]] |url=https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/762239839/ |access-date=28 April 2023 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> -Lamberton's last show was in Alaska in 1948, where she was on a four-month tour.<ref name="LBPT">{{cite news |title=Pair to Live in Detroit |url=https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/704371702/ |access-date=28 April 2023 |work=Long Beach Press Telegram |date=October 10, 1948 |page=33}}</ref> She left show business to take care of her mother, who always accompanied her professionally. Lamberton's mother died of cancer in August 1948.<ref name="TSW">{{cite journal |title=Vital Statistics - Obituary |journal=The Silent Worker |date=October 1948 |volume=1 |issue=2 |page=21 |url=https://archive.org/details/TheSilentWorker0102October1948/page/20/mode/2up |access-date=28 April 2023}}</ref> She married Edwin Drolet on October 3, 1948, and they moved to Detroit, Michigan.<ref name="FS2">{{cite web | title=Edwin P Drolet or Srolet | website=FamilySearch.org | date=2021-09-27 | url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHN-PQHW-P176 | access-date=2023-04-28}}</ref><ref name="FS4">{{cite web | title=Charlotte Frances Lamberton Marriage - California, County Marriages, 1850-1952 | website=FamilySearch.org | url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8KY-QGB | access-date=2023-04-28}}</ref><ref name="LBPT" /> He died of cancer in 1977.<ref name="FS3">{{cite web | title=Edwin Drolet Death - United States Social Security Death Index | website=FamilySearch.org | url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JLSC-4ZV | access-date=2023-04-28}}</ref> +When asked how she could dance to music she could not hear, Lamberton explained "Do I feel it through my feet? No but that's what everyone asks. I feel it through my arms, my legs, my body. It comes to me in a faint sort of pulsation, in rhythmic beats that are like waves... Oh I can't explain it!"<ref name="SLGD">{{cite news |date=October 25, 1936 |title=They Dance To Music They Cannot Hear |page=64 |work=[[St. Louis Globe-Democrat]] |url=https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/clip/123655897/charles-and-charlotte-lamberton/ |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> + +Lamberton's last show was in Alaska in 1948, where she was on a four-month tour.<ref name="LBPT">{{cite news |date=October 10, 1948 |title=Pair to Live in Detroit |page=33 |work=[[Long Beach Press Telegram]] |url=https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/704371702/ |access-date=28 April 2023 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She left show business to take care of her mother, who always accompanied her professionally. Lamberton's mother died of cancer in August 1948.<ref name="TSW">{{cite journal |date=October 1948 |title=Vital Statistics - Obituary |url=https://archive.org/details/TheSilentWorker0102October1948/page/20/mode/2up |journal=[[The Silent Worker]] |publisher=Gallaudet University Archives |volume=1 |issue=2 |page=21 |access-date=28 April 2023 |via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref> She married Edwin Drolet on October 3, 1948, and they moved to [[Detroit|Detroit, Michigan]].<ref name="LBPT" /><ref name="FS2">{{cite web | title=Edwin P Drolet or Srolet | website=FamilySearch.org | date=2021-09-27 | url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHN-PQHW-P176 | access-date=2023-04-28}}</ref><ref name="FS4">{{cite web | title=Charlotte Frances Lamberton Marriage - California, County Marriages, 1850-1952 | website=FamilySearch.org | url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8KY-QGB | access-date=2023-04-28}}</ref> He died of cancer in 1977.<ref name="FS3">{{cite web | title=Edwin Drolet Death - United States Social Security Death Index | website=FamilySearch.org | url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JLSC-4ZV | access-date=2023-04-28}}</ref> ==References== @@ -33,4 +35,8 @@ [[Category:1917 births]] [[Category:American deaf people]] -[[Category:American dancers]] [[Category:Living people]] +[[Category:American ballroom dancers]] +[[Category:Vaudeville performers]] +[[Category:People from Mountain Home, Idaho]] +[[Category:Dancers from Idaho]] +[[Category:Date of death missing]] '