Marjorie Sylvester Frazee was the only daughter born to a well to do hop farmer in Santa Rosa, California, Born March 13, 1905, She was married to 24-year-old Charles Quincy Adams at the tender age of 17.
After her marriage, though, things began changing and the couple soon separated, returning to their parents.
There are not a great number of great research items on circus performers, and being “show business” many of the records that do exist are untrustworthy. In a 1936 article, in her home town newspaper, it says that at that time, she had been performing as a bearded lady across the country for many years already, as Mademoiselle Zaza Frazee. I can find proof of neither assertion. I can only find her appearing in California from 1936 to 1942.
In 1942 Marjorie moved back into her parents home and took over her parent’s business affairs, advertising for hops pickers and renting her family’s large home as a sanitarium or convalescent home.
Marjorie died March, 25 1962 after a long illness.
Other Frazee circus performers of the Model A era include aerialist and singer—Mademoiselle Frazee of Columbus, Ohio; Circus manager, Al G. Frazee of the Kit Carson Buffalo Ranch Wild West Show, and Al G Frazee, Jr. motorcycle stuntman for the Al G Barnes Circus. Honorable mention was Frank Eugene Eliason, a famous magician, who went by Frank Frazee.
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