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Margaret Anglin

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ANGLIN, MARGARET (1876— ), American actress, was born on April 3, 1876, at Ottawa, Canada. She was educated in the convents of Loretto abbey, at Toronto, and Sault Recollet, at Montreal. She studied drama at the Wheatcroft school in New York, and made her stage debut in 1894 as Madeline West in Charles Frohman's presentation of Shenandoah. In 1898 she appeared as Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac. From 190o till 1903 she was the leading woman at the Empire theatre, and in 1903-04 acted with Henry Miller in Camille, The Devil's Disciple, and other plays. Her appearance in William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide, in 1907, added lustre to her growing fame. In 1909 she produced and took the leading part in The Awakening of Helena Richie, the dramatization of Margaret Deland's novel of that name. In 1910 she first turned to the Greek tragedies, ap pearing in the open air theatre in Berkeley, Calif., in Antigone, and in 1913 in Electra. In 1916 she led 1,200 players in a pres entation of As You Like It for the Shakespeare tercentenary celebration in Forest Park, St. Louis, Mo. In 1918 she gave Medea and Electra in New York, and in 1927 her third revival of Electra in the same city. Apart from her rendering of character in modern plays such as The Woman of Bronze, she is famous for her beautiful presentations of the Greek dramas and her faithful portrayal of their heroines.

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