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Nitta-Jo

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Nitta-Jo was the stage name for French singer and performer Fanny Dafflon born in Paris on October 7, 1880. Also known as Fanny Durnell (spouse name). Mistakenly named Jeanne Daflon or Jeanne Dufflin in various publications.

She performed as a gigolette and was known in French as La Gigolette Parisienne.

In Romania and Russia:

In Romania, Nitta Jo was said to have made herself "a national heroine" with her jibes against government policies.

She rebuffed a government order to cease singing the French national song, La Marseillaise, while she was living there in 1916 because it was a violation of the nation's neutrality during wartime. "Did that gag Nitta Jo?" asked foreign correspondent Robert Mountsier in a column. "It did not. She immediately began singing a song, each verse of which set forth to the enjoyment of her audience the weak spots in Roumanian neutrality." Each verse ended with the words, sung to several bars of the French song, "La Marseillaise est défendue" (the Marseillaise is defended).

She left Romania during the war to go to Russia, "until the chaotic conditions there made any form of amusement impossible," according to an article in The Buffalo Enquirer, which continued: "The reign of terror of the Bolsheviks forced her after witnessing innumerable uprisings and massacres to escape through Siberia to Japan where she sailed to America."

In Russia, she and her husband were "confined to their apartments for eight days during the revolutionary fighting," the Reno (Nevada) Evening Gazette reported after an interview. They arrived in the United States via China, Victoria, British Columbia, and San Francisco, California, where they stayed at the Palace Hotel.

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In the United States, where she was publicized as a "character singer," she debuted at the Orpheum theater in New York City in 1919. She was well received. Her first North American tour began with appearances at the Princess Theatre in Montreal, Quebec, in September 1918. A writer in The Gazette praised her "natural elfishness and grotesquerie of person and manner." In October she moved on to New York City, where the Herald said she was "a real 'find' for vaudeville." She also appeared in Buffalo; the Evening News said she "has created a furore and has been acclaimed the greatest artiste imported in years," and in Rochester. She ended the 1919 tour in Washington, D.C.

In April 1920, she sang at the Orpheum Theater in San Francisco, and the next month she was at the Orpheum in Los Angeles. Argonaut critic Josephine Hart Phelps said of her: "She fairly flashed temperament, and her whole being became a happy exuberance of rhythm." She and her husband were said to "have a beautiful home in France, to which they will return at the close of Nita-Jo's present engagement."

Her tracks are lost after a tour in Aix-en-Provence in 1938. She died after 1946.
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