Vintage Cabinet Card Agnes Ethel Broadway actress of the late 19th century

Description: Check Out My Other Items !! I Combine Shipping on Multiple Item Orders !! Agnes Ethel (May 1, 1846 – May 26, 1903)[1][2] was a Broadway actress of the late 19th century. She performed in New York City, the city of her birth, from 1868 to 1871. Her married name was Agnes Ethel Tracy.[3] She was especially talented in acting emotional roles She was a protégé of Mathilde Heron[2] (1830–1877) and made her stage debut in Camille (1868),[5] at Jerome's private theatre in New York.[6] It was situated on the southeast corner of Twenty-Sixth Street.[7] She studied for a year afterward, accepting minor parts.[2] Ethel and Fanny Davenport were among the actors in a production of a comedy,[8] Dreams,[9] by T. W. Robertson. It began playing at the Fifth Avenue Theatre on August 16, 1869.[8] She was in the first production of Frou Frou in the United States. The Augustin Daly stock company staged it at the Fifth Avenue Theatre,[10] 24th Street, one door from Broadway,[11] on February 15, 1870. Kate Newton, Davenport, and George Clarke were other cast members.[10] Ethel appeared in Fernande, also at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, in June 1870.[12] A critic wrote that her acting was her best thus far.[13] In September 1872 Ethel appeared in Agnes, presented by the Union Square Theatre. The play was written especially for her by Victorien Sardou. It ran for one hundred nights.[14] She retired at the height of her career for quiet domesticity. She took part in charities and assisted struggling actors and actresses.[4] She performed only twice more on stage, appearing on both occasions in support of charity.[2]

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