"ONE TIME ACTRESS DIES
Twenty-Nine Palms, Calif.,
Aug. 3 (A.P.)-Delia Stacey, 74, one-time New York stage actress and champion of women's rights, died today."
The San Diego Union. 4 August 1945
"ACTRESS' DEATH RECALLS OLD DAYS
Delia Stacey, 74, old-time stage actress who created a mild sensation in New York a half century ago when she became the first woman ever to smoke a cigaret (sic) on a street car, died at a San Bernardino hospital yesterday from a heart ailment.
Coroner R. E. Williams said Miss Stacey had resided at Joshua Tree townsite, 15 miles west of Twenty-nine Palms, since October, 1944.
Among Miss Stacey's effects was a truckload of scrap books containing clippings on her stage performances throughout the world. She was a protege of General Sherman, according to the press clippings.
Fifty years ago Miss Stacey was talking with Sam Freedman and Herbert J. Meyer, noted theatrical men, and, in championing women's rights, she made a wager with Meyer that she would smoke a cigaret on an open Broadway street car.
The incident made the front pages of New York papers and Miss Stacey won the bet. Clippings from the New York Journal said other dignified women passengers "showed signs of apoplexy," but the conductor said he could do nothing about it. "There's no law agin it," he declared.
She also attracted widespread attention when she jilted a Colorado senator and refused to return the expensive diamond ring he had given her. Miss Stacey, the daughter of a Civil War colonel, more recently operated a Florida tea room.
Her body was removed to Cortner's mortuary in Redlands, where funeral arrangements are pending."
Riverside Daily Press (Riverside, Calif.) 4 August 1945
Twenty-Nine Palms, Calif.,
Aug. 3 (A.P.)-Delia Stacey, 74, one-time New York stage actress and champion of women's rights, died today."
The San Diego Union. 4 August 1945
"ACTRESS' DEATH RECALLS OLD DAYS
Delia Stacey, 74, old-time stage actress who created a mild sensation in New York a half century ago when she became the first woman ever to smoke a cigaret (sic) on a street car, died at a San Bernardino hospital yesterday from a heart ailment.
Coroner R. E. Williams said Miss Stacey had resided at Joshua Tree townsite, 15 miles west of Twenty-nine Palms, since October, 1944.
Among Miss Stacey's effects was a truckload of scrap books containing clippings on her stage performances throughout the world. She was a protege of General Sherman, according to the press clippings.
Fifty years ago Miss Stacey was talking with Sam Freedman and Herbert J. Meyer, noted theatrical men, and, in championing women's rights, she made a wager with Meyer that she would smoke a cigaret on an open Broadway street car.
The incident made the front pages of New York papers and Miss Stacey won the bet. Clippings from the New York Journal said other dignified women passengers "showed signs of apoplexy," but the conductor said he could do nothing about it. "There's no law agin it," he declared.
She also attracted widespread attention when she jilted a Colorado senator and refused to return the expensive diamond ring he had given her. Miss Stacey, the daughter of a Civil War colonel, more recently operated a Florida tea room.
Her body was removed to Cortner's mortuary in Redlands, where funeral arrangements are pending."
Riverside Daily Press (Riverside, Calif.) 4 August 1945
"ONE TIME ACTRESS DIES
Twenty-Nine Palms, Calif.,
Aug. 3 (A.P.)-Delia Stacey, 74, one-time New York stage actress and champion of women's rights, died today."
The San Diego Union. 4 August 1945
"ACTRESS' DEATH RECALLS OLD DAYS
Delia Stacey, 74, old-time stage actress who created a mild sensation in New York a half century ago when she became the first woman ever to smoke a cigaret (sic) on a street car, died at a San Bernardino hospital yesterday from a heart ailment.
Coroner R. E. Williams said Miss Stacey had resided at Joshua Tree townsite, 15 miles west of Twenty-nine Palms, since October, 1944.
Among Miss Stacey's effects was a truckload of scrap books containing clippings on her stage performances throughout the world. She was a protege of General Sherman, according to the press clippings.
Fifty years ago Miss Stacey was talking with Sam Freedman and Herbert J. Meyer, noted theatrical men, and, in championing women's rights, she made a wager with Meyer that she would smoke a cigaret on an open Broadway street car.
The incident made the front pages of New York papers and Miss Stacey won the bet. Clippings from the New York Journal said other dignified women passengers "showed signs of apoplexy," but the conductor said he could do nothing about it. "There's no law agin it," he declared.
She also attracted widespread attention when she jilted a Colorado senator and refused to return the expensive diamond ring he had given her. Miss Stacey, the daughter of a Civil War colonel, more recently operated a Florida tea room.
Her body was removed to Cortner's mortuary in Redlands, where funeral arrangements are pending."
Riverside Daily Press (Riverside, Calif.) 4 August 1945
Twenty-Nine Palms, Calif.,
Aug. 3 (A.P.)-Delia Stacey, 74, one-time New York stage actress and champion of women's rights, died today."
The San Diego Union. 4 August 1945
"ACTRESS' DEATH RECALLS OLD DAYS
Delia Stacey, 74, old-time stage actress who created a mild sensation in New York a half century ago when she became the first woman ever to smoke a cigaret (sic) on a street car, died at a San Bernardino hospital yesterday from a heart ailment.
Coroner R. E. Williams said Miss Stacey had resided at Joshua Tree townsite, 15 miles west of Twenty-nine Palms, since October, 1944.
Among Miss Stacey's effects was a truckload of scrap books containing clippings on her stage performances throughout the world. She was a protege of General Sherman, according to the press clippings.
Fifty years ago Miss Stacey was talking with Sam Freedman and Herbert J. Meyer, noted theatrical men, and, in championing women's rights, she made a wager with Meyer that she would smoke a cigaret on an open Broadway street car.
The incident made the front pages of New York papers and Miss Stacey won the bet. Clippings from the New York Journal said other dignified women passengers "showed signs of apoplexy," but the conductor said he could do nothing about it. "There's no law agin it," he declared.
She also attracted widespread attention when she jilted a Colorado senator and refused to return the expensive diamond ring he had given her. Miss Stacey, the daughter of a Civil War colonel, more recently operated a Florida tea room.
Her body was removed to Cortner's mortuary in Redlands, where funeral arrangements are pending."
Riverside Daily Press (Riverside, Calif.) 4 August 1945
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