La Valera

More credible accounts indicate she was born Hazel Wolf to a traveling salesman and his wife and claimed Portland as her home town.

In a Los Angeles engagement La Valera presented a Kirmess dance during a production of Cupid At Home, at the Orpheum Theater.

In June 1915 La Valera joined the Mission Play performers who gave presentations at the Pasadena Playhouse.

La Valera's husband, Horton Forrest Phipps, became a taxi driver shortly before she began her vaudeville touring.

Through his employment he violated a San Francisco statute which read, "every person who acts as a runner or capper for attorneys in or about police courts is a vagrant and is punishable by a fine of $500 and imprisonment not to exceed six months."

Being an Army couple, they lived in many places: The Philippines, Hawaii, New York, Virginia, Texas and eventually California.