Alice Johnson ca. 1900
H.V. Donnelly
Daniel Frawley
ca.1904

Alice Johnson (born 1860, died New York City, November 25, 1914) was a Broadway actress and singer,[1] active at the beginning of the 20th century.[2] She began her career in the chorus in light opera.[3] She later became a member of the Murray Hill Theatre Stock Company. In a single season she was seen in "no less than thirty roles running the entire gamut of the modern stage."[1] The company was founded by Henry V. Donnelly (1862–1910).[4] The company gave two performances daily and changed the play each week. Alice played everything from Lady Macbeth to Peggy in A Tin Soldier by Temple Bailey.[3]

She was also the leading actress in the Frawley Company, a stock company founded by T. Daniel Frawley in San Francisco, when it was at the zenith of its popularity.[5] She was married to Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Butler, the son of Colonel George Harris Butler and actress Rose Eytinge, until his untimely death in 1904 at the age of thirty-three.[1]

She is buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C.[6]

Selected plays

  • The Pearl of Pekin (1888) an adaptation of the operetta Fleur-de-Thé by Charles Lecocq
  • The Poet and the Puppets (1893) a burlesque adaptation of Lady Windermere's Fan[Note 1]
  • The Sorrows of Satan (1897) adapted from the novel by Marie Corelli[7]
  • The Swell Miss Fitzwell (1897) by Henry A. Du Souchet
  • The Little Host (1898–99)
  • A Divorce Colony (1900) a farce by Sydney Rosenfield, Grand Opera House, San Francisco[8]
  • A Friend of the Family (1903) California Theatre, San Francisco
  • Mistakes Will Happen (1906)
  • The Dear Unfair Sex (1906)
  • The Man from Home (1908–09)
  • Widow by Proxy (1913)

Notes

  1. ↑ The show included a Hamlet in hoop skirts, the song "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow" and a three-legged dance. The audience hissed and booed its disapproval. (Reference: Thomas Allston Brown (1903) A History of the New York Stage, Dodd, Mead and Company, New York)

References

  1. 1 2 3 Robert Grau (1909) Forty Years Observation of Music and the Drama, Broadway Publishing Company, New York
  2. ↑ Alice Johnson at the Internet Broadway Database
  3. 1 2 Robert Grau (1910) The Business Man in the Amusement World, Broadway Pub. Co.,, New York
  4. ↑ "Henry V. Donnelly Dead" (February 16, 1910) New York Times
  5. ↑ Sunset Magazine Vol.9 No.5 (September, 1903) Southern Pacific Company, San Francisco
  6. ↑ "Oak Hill Cemetery, Georgetown, D.C. (North Hill) - Lot 183" (PDF). oakhillcemeterydc.org. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-03-02. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
  7. ↑ William Archer (1898) The Theatrical World: 1893-1897, Walter Scott Ltd., London
  8. ↑ The Argonaut Vol.47 No.1234 (November 5, 1900) San Francisco
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