Woman of the Century — Corinne Kimball (1893)
“ She played the principal parts in all of these, and memorized not only her own role but the entire operas, so as to be able to prompt every part from beginning to end. Then Mrs. Kimball, thinking to save Corinne's voice, from her twelfth to sixteenth year put her in burlesque. Her success in that line of work was much greater than expected, and consequently she has remained in burlesque. ”
