Alberta Gallatin
Alberta Gallatin | |
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Born | Alberta Gallatin Jenkins May 5, 1861 Cabell County, Virginia (today part of West Virginia) |
Died | August 25, 1948 | (aged 87)
Occupation(s) | Stage and Film Actress |
Alberta Gallatin (April 5, 1861 – August 25, 1948) was an American stage and film actress active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During her near forty-year career she acted in support of the likes of
According to at least one of her obituaries, the American critic Alexander Woollcott had considered Gallatin "the greatest American-born actress ever to grace the stage."[1]
Early life and family
Alberta Gallatin Jenkins was born at the
Gallatin was raised in St. Louis where she attended the
Stage career
In February 1886 she appeared with Madame Janish at the Leubrie Theatre, Memphis playing a flirtatious baroness in Princess Anréa, an adaptation of Victorien Sardou's Andréa: Comedie En Quatre Actes, Six Tableaux.[7][8]
That fall she toured with
On the afternoon of February 12, 1887, following a matinée performance of Lady Audley's Secret at the Masonic Opera House in Augusta, Georgia, a fire broke out that destroyed the theater and nearby Globe and Central hotels. Bowers’ company managed to escape with just the clothes on their backs, leaving behind wardrobes valued upwards of $20,000. Gallatin's wardrobes alone were valued at around $800. As a result of the Augusta fire, Bowers canceled their remaining Southern tour dates and returned to New York.[12][13]
By June 1888 Gallatin was touring with the King Hedley Company playing Julianna in Frank Harvey's (1842–1903) [14] melodrama The Wages of Sin[15] and, that fall, heading her own troupe, The Efficient Company, as Parthenia in Ingomar (also billed as Ingomar the Barbarian), Maria Lovell's adaptation of Friedrich Halm's Der Sohn der Wildnis.[16][17]
In the fall of 1889 Gallatin joined the Lyceum Theatre Company stock company as a general understudy under the management of Daniel Frohman.[18] In late 1890 she was engaged by a touring company headed by James O’Neil to play Catherine Duvall to his Henry Irving in Walter Herries Pollock's revision of the Watts Phillips story The Dead Heart.[19] The following year she toured with a company starring Thomas W. Keene playing Lady Anne In Shakespeare's Richard III,[20] Julie in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's historical drama Richelieu,[21] and Maria in Louis XI, Edwin Ardue Smith's stage adaptation of Walter Scott's historical novel Quentin Durward.[22]
Gallatin drew critical praise when on May 26, 1892, she appeared at the Madison Square Theatre in a special matinee performance of Shakespeare's "As You Like It", playing Rosalind to the Orlando of Otis Skinner. During the 1893–94 season Gallatin supported Richard Mansfield in road productions of Clyde Fitch's historical drama Beau Brummel, Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Octave Feuillet's A Parisian Romance (Un Roman Parisien), Mansfield's farcical adaptation of the Archibald Clavering Gunter drama Prince Karl, and Mansfield's take on Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.[23]
During the latter years of the closing decade of the 19th century Gallatin appeared with
In January 1900 Gallatin played Mrs. Bulford at Boston's
Later career
Between 1911 and 1925 Gallatin appeared in seven Broadway productions, the most notable of which was probably Mary Morrison's 1915 translation of the
On March 29, 1917, Gallatin filed a design with the
In 1920 Gallatin headed a group that founded the Edgar Allan Poe Society of New York and went on to serve as the organization's first president, a post she held for seventeen years.[6]
Private life
Gallatin, an Episcopalian, married twice: to actor Percy Sage (née Richardson)[44] at Plainfield, New Jersey, in August 1887; and on the heels of their divorce after thirteen years of marriage, to Edwin Ogden Childe, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on September 9, 1900.[6] This union eventually ended in divorce.[45] Their son, Edwin Jr., went on to marry Cynthia Carol Corlett, a great-granddaughter of the actor Joseph Jefferson.[46]
Death
Gallatin died at the age of 87 at
Resources
- ^ August 25, Wilson Library Bulletin, Volume 23, 1948, p. 106 Retrieved October 18, 2014
- ^ A Famous Snuff Box. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, March 30, 1879, p. 16
- ^ Stanley, H. M., 2011, p. 217,My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia Retrieved September 4, 2014
- ^ The Ball. St. Louis Globe-Democrat (St. Louis, Missouri), October 05, 1881; pg. 12
- ^ a b c Briscoe, J., 1908, p. 94, The Actors Birthday Book, Retrieved October 17, 2014
- ^ a b c The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 1954, pp. 71-72
- ^ Janous. The Memphis Daily Appeal, February 23, 1886, p. 5, col. 4 Retrieved September 9, 2014
- ^ Andréa: Comedie En Quatre Actes, Six Tableaux (1899) Retrieved September 9, 2014
- ^ Mrs. Bowers as Elisabeth. The Memphis Daily Appeal, December 09, 1886, p. 5
- ^ Lady Audley. Fort Worth Daily Gazette, January 13, 1887, p. 8
- ^ Tremont Opera House (advertisement). The Galveston Daily News (Houston, Texas), December 30, 1886, p. 1
- ^ Blackened Ruins. The Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago, Illinois), February 13, 1887, pg. 5
- ^ Fire.The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana), February 18, 1887, p. 4
- ^ Mr. Frank Harvey. The Athenaeum, Part 1, 1903 p. 444 Retrieved September 14, 2014
- ^ Amusements. Bangor Daily Whig & Courier (Bangor, Maine), June 14, 1888, p. 1
- ^ Advertisement. The News and Observer, (Raleigh, North Carolina), September 12, 1888, p. 1, col. D.
- ^ Ingomar, the Barbarian: A Play in Five Acts By Eligius Franz Josef, Mn̈ch-Bellinghausen, 1896, p. 3 Retrieved September 3, 2014
- ^ Theatrical Gossip. New York Times, July 24, 1889, p. 8
- ^ The City Theatres, Jas. O’Neill in The Dead Heart. Boston Daily Advertiser (Boston, Massachusetts), September 30, 1890; p. 8
- ^ Amusements. M’Vicker’s. The Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago, Illinois), September 04, 1891; p. 3
- ^ Amusements. Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon), November 17, 1891; p. 4
- ^ Amusements. Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon), November 18, 1891; g. 4
- ^ Theaters This Week Richard Mansfield in Repertory at the Davidson. The Milwaukee Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), November 19, 1893, p. 1
- ^ Music and Drama. The Milwaukee Journal (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), January 22, 1897, p. 6
- ^ Theatrical and Musical. Bangor Daily Whig & Courier (Bangor, Maine), August 15, 1898, p. 8
- ^ Music in Milwaukee The Milwaukee Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), October 30, 1898, p. 7
- ^ A Week of Music and Romance for Denver. The Denver Evening Post (Denver, Colorado), May 14, 1899, p. 15
- ^ Alberta Gallatin. The Milwaukee Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), October 15, 1899, p. 1, sect. 2
- ^ Boston Sunday Post (Boston, Massachusetts), January 21, 1900, p. 16-17
- ^ At the Murray Hill Theatre. New York Times, February 6, 1900, p. 9
- ^ The Theatre. The Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), March 31, 1900, p. 24
- ^ Amusements. The Indianapolis Journal (Indianapolis, Indiana), September 12, 1900, p. 3
- ^ Amusements. The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer (Wheeling, West Virginia), December 6, 1900, p. 3
- ^ As You Like It. Butler citizen (Butler, Pennsylvania), April 2, 1903, p. 3
- ^ Chat About Well Known Players. The San Francisco Call, May 01, 1904, p. 23
- ^ Plays and Players, A Clean Slate. Trenton Times (Trenton, New Jersey), March 3, 1905, p. 2
- ^ M'Kissick's Opera House (advertisement), Nevada State Journal (Reno, Nevada), January 26, 1906, p. 2
- ^ Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall Terre Haute Saturday Spectator (Terre Haute, Indiana), February 16, 1907, p. 12
- ^ Harrisburg Telegraph (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania), September 25, 1907, p. 10
- ^ The Weavers. Internet Broadway Database Retrieved October 4, 2014
- ^ The Christian (1914), Internet Movie Database Retrieved October 12, 2014
- ^ Poetry Program Friday: Dr. Louise Ball Heads Group Planning Afternoon Event. New York Times January 10, 1939, p. 26
- ^ Official Gazette of the United States Patent Offices, p. 401 Retrieved October 15, 2014
- ^ The Opera Glass: A Musical and Dramatic Magazine, 1894, p. 177
- ^ a b Alberta Gallatin, Retired Actress: Portrayer of Classic Roles is Dead at 87--Seen With Booth and Other Stage Stars. New York Times, August 27, 1948, p. 19
- ^ Descendant of Actor Weds. Bryan Daily Eagle (Bryan, Texas), November 23, 1929, p. 2
External links
- Alberta Gallatin at IMDb