Eva Puck

Eva Puck (November 25, 1892 – October 25, 1979) was an American entertainer, a vaudeville headliner who later found success performing in Broadway musical comedies and film.

[5][6][7] On May 10, 1903, police raided the Trocadero Music Hall in Manhattan's Fort George district where the Puck children were performing as headliners and arrested their parents and the theater manager, Freeman Bernstein.

The investigators were concerned over the hours that Eva and her brother were keeping and also found the Trocadero an unsuitable environment for children with patrons smoking and consuming alcohol.

The judge, in passing sentence said, in part: "We cannot resist the conviction that these parents have been living largely upon the earnings of these children, which amount from $125 to $150 per month.

[9][10] Their younger brother, Laurence "Larry" Puck, became a radio and television producer and general manager of Unicorn Productions Inc., a subsidiary of CBS.

One of their popular vaudeville sketches ("Opera vs. Jazz") portrayed White as a scholarly music teacher and Eva as his inept student.

[10][15] Puck and White appeared in a short film made by Lee De Forest in his Phonofilm sound-on-film process, which premiered at the Rivoli Theater in New York City on 15 April 1923.

[23] Eva Puck died in 1979, aged 86, at the Granada Hills Community Hospital in Los Angeles County, California.