“Vonnie” Hoyt

Emma Fitch Hoyt Robb, who used the stage name Vonnie Hoyt, taken from a 1914 magazine feature (the full image appears below). Emma toured with the Anna Held Company and married Percy “Bud” Robb, manager of the Earl Carroll Theatre in New York.

The text accompanying the image reads: “Some of the beauties in the Ziegfeld "Follies" at the New Amsterdam Theatre, which ran from June 1 to September 5, 1914. 1. Marie Wallace. 2. Julia Beaubien. 3. Ida Howe. 4. Eleanor Dell. 5. Lola Lorraine. 6. Gladys Loftus. 7. Flo Hart. 8. Vonnie Hoyt. 9. Bessie Gross” Originally printed in The Theatre Magazine (vol. 19, no. 160. June 1914), now viewable on Wikimedia Commons.