When Cissy Winks Her Eye

There’s the girl with roguish glances,

And the girl who skips and dances,

There’s the girl who sings a ditty, who can make you laugh or cry;

     But the girl I prize so highly,

Is the girl who winketh slyly,

Who can make a man a captive by the winking of her eye.

                   Chorus

When Cissy winks her eye

          It makes my pulses fly,

                   My youthful heart

                   It doth depart

          When Cissy winks her eye.

                      II.

And sweet Cissy is the creature,

     Fair of form and fair of feature,

She can dance and glance and warble like a fairy sweet and shy;

     She’s the girl of roguish glances

     She’s the girl who skips and dances,

She’s the girl to catch the chappies by the winking of her eye.

                   Chorus

When Cissy winks her eye

          It makes a bald head sigh;

                   He doth forget

                   That he’s a vet,

          When Cissy winks her eye.

                      III.

Here’s a welcome to you Cissy,

Every hour with you is blissy

When you leave this classic city we will all lay down and die;

     We may forget your glances,

     And your pretty graceful dances,

But will keep in mind forever that sly winking of your eye.

                   Chorus

When Cissy winks her eye

          It makes my pulses fly;

                   O, Cissy dear,

                   Return again next year,

          And wink, and wink, your eye.

 

Nov. 1, 1895

Pub. in

Boston Courier,

Nov. 10, 1895

Cissy Fitzgerald (1 February 1873 – 10 May 1941) was an English-American vaudeville actress, dancer and singer who appeared in numerous silent and sound films. She made her first film almost at the beginning of film in 1896 appearing in a self-titled short film shot by Thomas Edison. She did not appear in films again until 1914 where she signed with the Vitagraph company and was quite popular in feature films and her own series of Cissy short films. Very little of Fitzgerald's silent material survives today but she can be seen in a comic backup role in the 1928 Lon Chaney vehicle Laugh, Clown, Laugh.

Fitzgerald later laid claims to having been the first woman ever filmed in motion pictures when she went to the Edison labs at New Jersey in 1896 to shoot 50 feet of film. This claim is certainly disputed as Annabelle Whitford had been filmed in 1894 by Edison engineer W. K. L. Dickson and the Lumiere's over in France were shooting motion pictures, ie men and women coming and going from a factory, by 1896. Fitzgerald had been appearing in a popular play "The Gaiety Girl" beginning in 1894 and was still in this play when she went to Edison.

Fitzgerald was married to Oliver Mark Tucker and had two children, a son and a daughter.                                   Photo by William McKenzie Morrison, 1895

                                                                                                         . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cissy_Fitzgerald