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Draft:Beatriz Escalona

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Early years
Career
Early career Compania Mexicana
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Beatriz Escalona (August 20, 1903 – April 4, 1979) was an American comic actress whose career in Spanish-language vaudeville spanned more than four decades from the 1920s through the 1950s. She is known for creating the comic persona of la peladita “La Chata,” an underdog, fast-talking character that could survive and ironically come out ahead in any situation. Escalona formed and managed several successful vaudeville companies that performed in Los Angeles, Tampa, Miami, San Antonio, New York, and other cities in the United States, Cuba, and Mexico. ^[1]

Early years

Escalona was born in San Antonio, Texas and was raised by her mother, a widow who supported the family by running a boardinghouse. Beatriz began working in the box office at the Teatro Zaragosa at the age of thirteen, and at seventeen she was hired as an usherette at San Antonio’s Teatro Nacional.

Escalona met her future husband, Jose Areu, at the Teatro Nacional, and she became a member of the Areu theatrical troupe, where she trained as an actress, singer and dancer, and comedienne. In 1920, she made her stage debut in El Paso, Texas.^[1]

Career

Early career

The Areu family was of Spanish-Cuban heritage, and they were an important troupe on the Spanish-language vaudeville and Zarzuela (Spanish operetta) circuit in the Southwest, touring Mexico and the Southwest throughout the 1920’s. By 1930 Beatriz was known as “La Chata Noloesca,” the comic underdog character she created, and she had separated from her husband and created her own vaudeville company, Atracciones Noloesca.

Compania Mexicana

In 1936, Escalona formed a new vaudeville company primarily made up of women from San Antonio, and in 1938 the Compania Mexicana began performing throughout the United States in cities where the Hispanic populations could support live theater. Escalona’s idea to was to bring Mexican variety acts to Latino communities, and the company had considerable success in Tampa, Miami, and Cuba. In 1941 following well-received performances in Chicago, the troupe went to New York, where they played various theaters and worked in radio and television.

References

1. ^¹{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/74671044|title=Latinas in the United States : a historical encyclopedia|last=|first=|date=2006|publisher=Indiana University Press|others=Ruíz, Vicki., Sánchez Korrol, Virginia.|year=|isbn=0253111692|location=Bloomington|pages=236-237|oclc=74671044}}

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