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  "name": "Edward M. Favor",
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  "description": "From Wikipedia\n\nEdward Addison Favor (August 29, 1856 – January 10, 1936),\n\nwho was billed as Edward M. Favor or Ed. M. Favor, was an American vaudeville\n\ncomedian, singer, musical theatre performer and pioneer recording artist, who\n\nwas one of the most popular stars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth\n\ncenturies.\n\nHe was born in New York, the son of Franklin Cushman Favor\n\nand his wife Lydia, née Lowe. Suggestions that the family name was originally LeFevre\n\nhave been discounted.\n\nHe began working in vaudeville as a light comedian in about\n\n1876, and in or before 1877 married Edith Sinclair (1857-1942), who had been a\n\nsuccessful child actress. Billed as Favor and Sinclair, the couple worked\n\ntogether as a duo and in musical comedies. In 1887 they appeared together as\n\nmembers of the Edith Sinclair Comedy Company in A Box of Cash, in which he\n\nplayed an Irish-American character. Despite the popularity of his Irish character\n\nroles, there is no evidence that he had any Irish ancestry. In 1893 he and his\n\nwife appeared on Broadway in Edward E. Rice's long-running burlesque 1492 Up To\n\nDate.\n\nHe made one of his first recordings in 1893, of \"The\n\nCommodore Song\", taken from his previous show, Ship Ahoy. Among his other\n\nearly successes were \"Say Au Revoir, But Not Goodbye\" (North\n\nAmerican, 1894), \"Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)\" (Edison, 1894),\n\nand \"My Best Girl's A New Yorker\" (Columbia, 1895). By the late 1890s\n\nFavor recorded for most of the major recording companies, in between his\n\nvaudeville commitments. In 1899, he was one of the first to record on the\n\nZonophone label, and in 1900 recorded for the first time for Victor Records. He\n\ncontinued to appear on stage and, in 1900, was described in Broadway magazine\n\nas \"one of the best light comedians on the stage\" and, with his wife,\n\nas \"one of the big attractions in vaudeville.\"\n\nHe continued to make successful recordings for the next\n\ndecade, sung in his \"Irish-American piping tenor\".[3] These included\n\ncomic numbers for Edison, Columbia and other companies, such as \"Hamlet\n\nWas A Melancholy Dane\", \"Who Threw The Overalls In Mrs. Murphy's\n\nChowder?\" (1901), \"On a Sunday Afternoon\" (1902), \"Bedelia\n\n(The Irish Coon Song Serenade)\" (1903), \"I Think I Hear A Woodpecker\n\nKnocking At My Family Tree\", and \"Pocahontas\" (1906). He also\n\nmade recordings with his wife, Steve Porter, and the American Quartet.\n\nHe made his final recordings for Victor in 1911, and for\n\nEdison in 1914 when he recorded \"On The 7:28\" and \"Indoor\n\nSports\".\n\nFavor continued to appear in theatrical shows through the\n\n1920s and into the early 1930s. In 1933 he appeared in the Broadway productions\n\nof John Ferguson and Merton of the Movies, and in 1934 in America - Very Early.\n\nHe died at the age of 79 in Brooklyn in 1936.",
  "birthDate": "1856-08-29",
  "deathDate": "1936-01-10",
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