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6 unusual facts about Olga Nethersole


Bowdoin Square Theatre

"Olga Nethersole Brings Suit; Seeks to Enjoin a Boston Theatre from Presenting "Sapho.

E. C. Stearns Bicycle Agency

Olga Nethersole endorsed the 1896 Stearns bicycle when she wrote a letter to the company;

Because the company believed the name Stearns was used on the stage more extensively than any other bicycle, they were working on an advertising campaign in 1896 which contained the photos and testimonials of such stars as Olga Nethersole, Loie Fuller, Cora Urquhart Brown-Potter, Cissy Fitzgerald, Richard Mansfield, Robert Hilliard and John Drew, among others.

Elizabeth Crocker Bowers

Under A. M. Palmer's management she appeared in Lady Windermere's Fan (1893), and later she was a supporting actress for Rose Coghlan and Olga Nethersole.

Rutland Barrington

Though the piece was unsuccessful, Barrington's performance was praised, and it launched several theatrical careers, including Olga Nethersole's.

William Lugg

Lugg then toured with Olga Nethersole in another musical, The Quaker Girl, from 1910 to 1911, and appeared at the Lyceum Theatre in 1912 in The Monk and the Woman, at the Prince's Theatre in Ben-My-Chree, and in 1913 toured again with Nethersole.



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