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before returning to New York as a concert performer with a supporting ballet troupe. That troupe marked the beginning of the
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Rasch later signed a “contract with the Keith-Albee circuit for the seasons 1919-1922." On those vaudeville tours, “she often performed alongside “Negro” jazz bands as they were referred to at the time."
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