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Liberty Gazette announces Shakespeare reading by Ada Bertha Théodore
On this day in 1855, the Liberty Gazette carried an advertisement
announcing that Ada Bertha Théodore would be giving readings of
Shakespeare. As Adah Menken she went from poetry readings in Texas to a
minor stage career in the South and on to fame and controversy for her
daringly suggestive performance in Mazeppa; or The Wild Horse of Tartary
on the city stages of the Midwest, the East Coast, and Europe.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- MENKEN, ADAH ISAACS
- THEATER
- LIBERTY, TX
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
- Witte Memorial Museum opens (1926)
- Filibusters captured at La Bahía (1821)
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