Collins, Lottie (1866-1910)

English music-hall performer. She became widely known in 1891 when she introduced the song ‘Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay!’ (written by Harry Sayers (1857-1934)) into the pantomime of Dick Whittington at the Grand, Islington, London, following it with a whirlwind high-kicking skirt dance.

Her daughter José Collins (1887-1958) was an actor and a singer in musical comedy, best remembered as Teresa in Frederick Lonsdale's The Maid of the Mountains (1917).