ABSTRACT
American singing actresses and vaudeville duo, consisting of Rosetta and Vivian Duncan, both born in Los Angeles around 1900. Their sister Evelyn performed with them at first. Rosetta and Vivian appeared at the Fifth Avenue Theater in New York in 1917, and in New York plays through 1922; they were also in London in 1921. Their greatest success was in the play Topsy and Eva, for which they wrote the music and lyrics; it opened in San Francisco on 9 July 1923, and then broke the box office record at Chicago’s Selwyn Theater. In New York the play ran for 159 performances, starting on 23 Dec 1924. A (silent) movie based on it premiered in June 1927 at Hollywood’s Egyptian Theater.
