The most recent searches by visitors to Footlight Notes have been for the English actress and vocalist Evie Greene (1876/78-1917), whose nephew was the actor Richard Greene (1918-1985), remembered by many for playing the title role in the popular television series, The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955-1960); the American actor Hale Hamilton, husband of the actress and singer Grace La Rue whose wonderful recording 1914 recording of Elsa Maxwell's 'A Tango Dream' is a revelation; the promising young Welsh actress Gaynor Rowlands, who died tragically young from appendicitis in 1905; and the American actress and singer Ida Adams. Among the searches, inexplicably, I also find the name of the Welsh preacher Evan Roberts, a man not usually associated with popular entertainment. JC
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