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233:, in its December 1900 issue, published a brief profile entitled "A Skilled Chauffeuse," deeming Mudge an "expert and ardent who knows how to drive an automobile anywhere it will go, is not baffled by a short circuit or faulty contact can handle steam and gasoline machines, too." The following summer,
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Eva Mudge turns in another decrepit servant, this time with
Salvation Army leanings, which is a thing of joy—she does more with a cocked eye than most actors can do with a whole gamut of gestures.
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Detroit, and was featured in the school's thirty-second annual exhibition of children's classes on May 6, 1887. The following year, Mudge made her professional debut on June 16 at the
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Little Eva Mudge, who has been singing, dancing and reciting, will celebrate her sixteenth birthday on
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headquarters, and on at least one more occasion in the period leading up to the 1932 general election, Mudge spoke on behalf of the
Democratic Party, the Roosevelt-Garner ticket and
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Mudge first obtained a driver's license in 1898 in New York state. The first working design of an automobile had only happened approximately five years before. Her first car was a
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as her racing car. At the turn of the century most races involving women were "Ladies Only" races or distance races where women were there to show off the reliability of a car.
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Mudge's three marriages each ended in divorce. The first, from 1904 to 1914, was to
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reported an illegal, thoroughly impromptu race staged along Boston's
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