Summary

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.
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Woman of the Century — Corinne Kimball (1893)

In "Arcaia" she first established herself; in "Monte Cristo, Jr.," she attracted attention and won the title of "Queen of the Stage," in the great New York "Morning Journal " voting contest, over the heads ol such artists as Lillian Russell, Fay Templeton, Marion Manola and others of equal note. Another and late success was in the character of Carmencita, the Spanish dancing beauty, in an elaborate burlesque production of "Carmen."
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