Florence Bindley

She started on stage at age 3, as "Baby Bindley",[1] dancing and playing novelty instruments made by her father.

[2] Bindley appeared on Broadway and in variety shows, including Heroine in Rags (1887),[3] The Pay Train (1892),[4][5] Captain's Mate (1894),[6] A Midnight Marriage (1904),[7] The Street Singer (1904),[8] The Belle of the West (1905),[9] The Girl and the Gambler (1906),[10] In the Nick of Time (1908), and Major Meg (1916),[11] which included a display of "her famous zylophone specialty.

"[12] "She is at all times charming, magnetic, and possesses a beautiful singing voice," commented the Pittsburgh Press in 1904, "together with marked emotional and comedy ability.

"[13] She was billed as "The Girl with the Diamond Dress,"[2] for an unusual costume she wore, first on the vaudeville stage and later in The Street Singer.

[14] A later vaudeville act of Bindley's, "An Afternoon at Home" (1909), featured musical monologues, singing and dancing.