: MAY
Florence Mills: Month by Month
1900 Goes with local kids to Black Patti (Sissieretta Jones) matinee show in DC
1913 Plays Fairyland Theatre, DC as member of the Mills Sisters
1915 Plays Howard Theatre DC with partner Ethel "Kinky" Caldwell (Clark)
1917 In support act for vaudeville great Nora Bayes at New York's 39th St Theatre
1919 Plays Grand Theatre, Chicago with the Panama Trio
1920 With Tennessee Ten in hit show Folly Town, along with Bert Lahr & Jack Haley
1923 First black international female superstar in Dover Street to Dixie at London Pavilion, to royal acclaim
1926 Opens in Blackbirds of 1926 at Les Ambassadeurs, Paris, co-starring with Paul Whiteman
1927 Featured dancer at Paris dinner to honor Lindbergh after his epoch-making transatlantic flight
1927 Opens in final London engagement of Blackbirds of 1927 at Strand Theatre