20 July 1952 - musical revue written by Ary Barroso, Luiz Peixoto & Roberto Ruiz 'Há sinceridade nisso?' with Portuguese fado-singer Herminia Silva, Colé, Silva Filho, Manuel Bandeira, Nelia Paula supported by 'Ballet Charles' as Cachopas de Lisboa.
10 August 1952 - as of Tuesday, 12 August 1952, a different revue, 'Sossega, Ademar', written by the same authors, performed by the same cast with the valuable addition of popular Portuguese actor-song-writer Alberto Ribeiro of 'Coimbra' fame.
Herminia Silva in 1943, some 9 years before the revue 'Há sinceridade nisso?'.
13 December 1953 - here's an example how Portuguese acts mingled with Brazilian colleagues in a musical revue that had no specific Portuguese theme at all. Up until the mid-1950s Portuguese culture was naturally mixed with Brazilian's. Walter Pinto was the biggest vaudeville impresario in Brazil producing at least one big show a year.
One can feel the Portuguese presence in 'É fogo na jaca' in many ways; Violeta Ferraz, was born in Lisbon arriving in Brazil when she was 13 years old; Ivaná, (real name: Ivan Monteiro Damião) had just arrived from Lisbon (or Paris) and had been controversial due to the Brazilian public ignorance about cross-dressing; Gilda Valença, a fado-singer had been living in Brazil for years with a successful career in radio, theatre and recordings; Mesquitinha was born in Lisbon in 1902, arriving in Rio - with his family - when he was only 5 years old in 1907).
Ivan Monteiro Damião aka Ivaná when impersonating a woman died on 31st March 1991.
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