She was less an actress than a diseuse, an entertainer who performed songs and other special material of her own creation.

In the modern era the more successful practitioners of this art have been actresses frequently referred to by the French term "diseuse".

The recital was listed as Helen Trix diseuse.

The word "Diseuse" really means "an artist in talking" so that may be the real term to use in connection with Miss Draper."

In 1922 he met the poet Marcellus Schiffer and the Diseuse Margo Lion.

An innovator, she favored monologue-like "patter songs" (as they came to be called) and was often billed as a "diseuse" or "sayer."

DISEUSE: "The girl with the innaresting groin."

La Consultation ou La Diseuse de bonne-aventure, Saintes Musée municipal.

Another humorous version was cut by diseuse Leola Anderson in 1957 for her LP Music to Suffer By.

"Diseuse" is the French word, but that is more readily applicable to an artist like Yvette Guilbert or Raquel Meller.

Ruth Draper (December 2, 1884-December 30, 1956) was an American actress, dramatist and noted diseuse who specialized in character-driven monologues and monodrama.

Evelyn, a noted diseuse who had performed on both sides of the Atlantic, had previously been married to Herbert Pomeroy Brown, a Wall Street broker.

The entertainment included the American debut of Lucienne Boyer, billed as a "distinguished French diseuse," whose most famous number was "Parlez-Moi d'Amour."

The early usages of "diseuse" as a theatrical term in the American press seem to coincide with Yvette Guilbert's tour of New York City in the mid-1890s.

Other productions offered the cabaret diseuse Hildegarde, the Hollywood vamp Dorothy Lamour and even the Incan goddess Yma Sumac in these bits.

In the book "The Guest List" by Ethan Mordden, the art of the diseuse is defined as "a speaker of lyrics: in effect, one who uses the music to get to the words"

Odette Dulac was a French singing actress, born 14 July 1865 in Aire-sur-Adour a diseuse in the manner of Yvette Guilbert, who became a militant feminist and novelist.

Joyce Grenfell wrote in Darling Ma: Joyce Grenfell's Letters to her Mother 1932-1944, "What makes a good diseuse is a capacious verbal (and visual) imagination, and an excellent oral delivery.

By this time he was developing an interest in light music and was playing in the evenings in many of the boîtes around Budapest, such as the Cafe Dunacorso where he accompanied Zsuzsa Darvas, a popular diseuse.

Twenty years later her biography, "That Was Yvette: The Biography of a Great Diseuse" by Bettina Knapp and Myra Chipman (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1964,) was released.

The publication Theatre World wrote in a 1949 piece, "In our time we have fallen under the spell of three remarkable women practising the art of the diseuse - Ruth Draper, Cornelia Otis Skinner, and Joyce Grenfell.

The operatic mezzo Joyce Castle may not physically resemble the girlish and angular Yvette Guilbert, but her witty diction deftly evokes the art of the diseuse, as performers of the bawdy popular songs of the period were called.

In a 1944 conversation with Victor Borge, Skinner reportedly told the Danish comedian that she decided to drop the term "diseuse" from her act after reading in a Scottish newspaper: "Cornelia Otis Skinner, the American disease, gave a program last night."

She initially worked mainly as a fashion illustrator and also designed costumes for Marlene Dietrich and Diseuse Margo Lion in Mischa Spoliansky's Revue Es liegt in der Luft (text by Marcellus Schiffer), which premiered in 1928.

After spending the next 20 years honing her talents Off Broadway and in television commercials, Miss Cary recently returned to her cabaret origins with a skillfully developed act in the spirit of the great days of cabaret in which she shows off her talents as singer, comedian and diseuse.