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After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.

Ethel Waters

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Ethel Waters
Age: 80 †
Born: 1896
Born: October 31
Died: 1977
Died: September 1
Film Actor
Jazz Musician
Singer
Stage Actor
Vocalist
Chester
Pennsylvania
Young
Houses
Stomping
Something
Hadn
Dreaded
Years
Noise
Whistling
Theater
Cheering
Working
Theaters
White
Colored
Fear
Annoyed
House
Cheer

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