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SET OF 5 VERY RARE AUTOGRAPHS - CIRCA 1800S
SET OF 5 VERY RARE AUTOGRAPHS - CIRCA 1800S
AUTOGRAPHS INCLUDE: 

PAULINE HALL (FEBRUARY 26, 1860 – DECEMBER 29, 1919), BORN PAULINE FREDRIKA SCHMIDGALL, WAS A STAGE ACTRESS AND SINGER. ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY PRIMA DONNAS IN AMERICA, SHE LEFT SCHOOL AT THE AGE OF 14 AND BEGAN HER CAREER AS A DANCER IN HER NATIVE CINCINNATI, OHIO IN 1875. ALTHOUGH POPULAR, AS AN ACTRESS AND SINGER, HALL WAS NEVER GIVEN GOOD NOTICES BY REVIEWERS, WHO THOUGHT SHE WAS MEDIOCRE. SHE HAD AN ALLURING FIGURE, HOWEVER, AND SHE MAINTAINED IT UNTIL HER DEATH IN 1919 WHILE PLAYING IN DAVID BELASCOS THE GOLD DIGGERS. HALL WAS MARRIED TO EDWARD WHITE FROM 1881-1889. SHE WAS THEN MARRIED TO THEATRICAL MANAGER GEORGE B. MCLELLAN (BROTHER OF PLAYWRIGHT C. M. S. MCLELLAN), FROM 1894-1902; SHE HAD A DAUGHTER BY HIM IN 1895. AUTOGRAPH INCLUDES "FAITHFULLY YOURS" 

JANE HARDING (NOVEMBER 25, 1859 - FEBRUARY 18, 1941) WAS A FRENCH ACTRESS. HER REAL NAME WAS JEANNE-ALFRÉDINE TRÉFOURET. IN 1888 AND 1894, SHE TOURED AMERICA WITH BENOÎT CONSTANT COQUELIN. SHE HELPED TO GIVE SUCCESS TO HENRI LAVEDANS LE PRINCE DAUREC AT THE VAUDEVILLE IN 1892, AND AFTERWARDS JOINED THE COMÉDIE FRANÇAISE. HER REPUTATION AS ONE OF THE LEADING ACTRESSES OF THE DAY WAS ESTABLISHED NOT ONLY IN FRANCE BUT IN AMERICA AND ENGLAND. SHE ALSO TOURED SOUTH AMERICA.VICTORIEN SARDOU CHOSE HER FOR THE TITLE ROLE OF HIS MARCELLE IN 1896. HER LATER REPERTOIRE INCLUDED LE DEMI-MONDE, ALFRED CAPUSS LA CHÂTELAINE, CHARLES MAURICE DONNAYS RETOUR DE JERUSALEM, LA PRINCESSE GEORGES BY ALEXANDRE DUMAS, FILS, AND ÉMILE BERGERATS PLUS QUE REINE. AUTOGRAPH IS DATED 1894

EDWARD SMITH WILLARD (1853–1915) ALSO KNOWN PROFESSIONALLY AS E. S. WILLARD, WAS AN ENGLISH ACTOR. HE WAS BORN AT BRIGHTON AND MADE HIS DEBUT UPON THE STAGE AT WEYMOUTH IN THE LADY OF LYONS IN 1869. HE THEN TOURED WITH E. A. SOTHERN AND LATER JOINED VARIOUS STOCK COMPANIES. COMING TO LONDON IN 1875, HE PLAYED ANTONIO IN THE MERCHANT OF VENICE WITH CHARLES RICE IN 1876. AFTER A VARIED EXPERIENCE IN SHAKESPEAREAN AND OTHER PLAYS, IN 1881 HE WAS ENGAGED BY WILSON BARRETT AT THE PRINCESS THEATRE, WHERE HE PLAYED IN THE LIGHTS OF LONDON, THE SILVER KING, AND OTHER WELL-KNOWN PIECES. IN 1886 HE MADE A HIT AS JIM THE PENMAN AT THE HAYMARKET. ONE OF HIS GREATEST SUCCESSES WAS HIS PRODUCTION OF THE MIDDLEMAN BY H. A. JONES, AT THE SHAFTESBURY IN 1889, HE HIMSELF CREATING THE PART OF CYRUS BLENKARN. HE CAME TO THE UNITED STATES IN 1890, AND MADE HIS FIRST APPEARANCE AT PALMERS THEATRE (LATER, WALLACKS THEATRE) IN NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 10, 1890, WHEN HE AGAIN ACTED IN THE POWERFUL PLAY OF "THE MIDDLEMAN," BY HENRY ARTHUR JONES, AND THE GREETING THAT HAILED HIM WAS THAT OF EARNEST RESPECT. AUTOGRAPH IS SIGNED 1894. 

ROLAND REED AMERICAN ACTOR - SIGNED "YOURS SINCERELY - CHICAGO FEBRUARY 19 1894" 

WILLIAM H. CRANE (30 APRIL 1845 – 7 MARCH 1928) WAS AN AMERICAN ACTOR, WHO MADE HIS FIRST APPEARANCE AT UTICA, NEW YORK, IN DONIZETTIS THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT IN 1863. LATER HE HAD A GREAT SUCCESS AS LE BLANC THE NOTARY, IN THE BURLESQUE EVANGELIE (1873). HE MADE HIS FIRST HIT IN THE LEGITIMATE DRAMA WITH STUART ROBSON (1836–1903), IN THE COMEDY OF ERRORS AND OTHER SHAKESPEAREAN PLAYS, AND IN THE HENRIETTA (1881) BY BRONSON HOWARD (1842–1908). THIS PARTNERSHIP LASTED FOR TWELVE YEARS, AND SUBSEQUENTLY CRANE APPEARED IN VARIOUS ECCENTRIC CHARACTER PARTS IN SUCH PLAYS AS THE SENATOR AND DAVID HARUM. IN 1904 HE TURNED TO MORE SERIOUS WORK AND PLAYED ISIDORE IZARD IN BUSINESS IS BUSINESS, AN ADAPTATION FROM OCTAVE MIRBEAUS LES AFFAIRES SONT LES AFFAIRES. IN HIS 70S, CRANE APPEARED IN A NUMBER OF FILMS, NOTABLY IN A REPRISE OF HIS ROLE IN DAVID HARUM (1915). HE ALSO APPEARED IN MGMS THREE WISE FOOLS, A FILM RECENTLY REVIVED ON TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES AND IS AVAILABLE ON HOME VIDEO/DVD. AUTOGRAPH IS SIGNED "VERY TRULY YOURS" 

ALL AUTOGRAPHS ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. SOLD AS IS.



SET OF 5 VERY RARE AUTOGRAPHS - CIRCA 1800S (pce130140)
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