Bert Savoy

Image Source:Big Blue Dot Y’all A contemporary of Julian Eltinge, Bert Savoy, born Everett McKenzie, began his drag career at 14 as a taxi dancer, a hired dance partner, for male patrons in 1920s and 1930s dance halls. McKenzie tried his luck as a fortune teller named “Madame Veen,” but was arrested in Baltimore and sentenced to 60 days in jail. He married a showgirl in 1904, and the two worked in vaudeville performances together, with McKenzie now going by Bert Savoy, for several years. Savoy w