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FOOTLIGHT NOTES
no. 618
updated
Saturday, 18 July 2009
FOOTLIGHT NOTES
images of theatre and other popular entertainment
1850s-1920s
a cabinet photograph of Alma Stanley (1854-1931),
English dancer, actress and singer,
at the time of her appearance in the United States of America
with Leavitt's Grand English Opera Burlesque Co, 1881
(photo: Scholl, Philadelphia, United States of America, 1881)
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'Alma Stanley, now playing in Patience at the Standard, is also English and tall. She is, indeed, very tall - almost the average man's height - and has a fine complexion, with brown hair and eyes, and remarkably long eyelashes. She comes here from England with a burlesque company, and is the daughter of an English army officer, who named her Alma in honor of the battle in the Crimea where he won promotion.'
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