Bertha Galland (November , â€" November , ) was an American dramatic
stage actress remembered for her romantic roles.Bertha Galland was the
daughter of Berthold Galland and Anna Miller Hawley. According to her
obituary in The New York Times, she was born near Wilkes-Barre,
Pennsylvania, though early travel documents and census records give
Bergen, New Jersey or New York City as her birthplace. Berthold
Galland was a native of Posen, Prussia (present-day Poznań, Poland)
who came to America in where he became a dry goods merchant and later
found success as a manufacturer of fashionable women’s lace
undergarments. Anna Galland (aka A. M. Galland), born in Harford,
Pennsylvania, was a talented marine and landscape artist. Anna’s
sister, Effie Julia Hawley, was the wife of Louis Arthur Watres, a
onetime Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania.Galland took to the stage
about age twenty after studying drama for several years in Europe and
later in America as a student of George Edgar, a former instructor of
actress Margaret Mather. In the summer of it was widely reported in
the press that the following season Galland would debut playing
Juliet, Lady Macbeth and Frou-Frou in a tour of New England. Two
months later though, the tour was cancelled after her father and uncle
withdrew their financial support for the venture. Later in she formed
a stock company with George Edgar performing “Comedy and Tragedyâ€
in engagements such as their December, presentations at the opera
house in Adams and the Columbia Opera House in North Adams,
Massachusetts, playing five select scenes taken from plays by
Shakespeare, Sheridan and Daly. An Adams theater critic later wrote,
“Lovers of good acting who failed to attend the performance of Miss
Bertha Galland and George Edgar at the opera house at Adams last
evening, missed one of the best attractions of the season.†Galland's
first major success came in at the Criterion Theatre in New York
playing Marie Ottilie in The Pride of Jennico opposite James K.
Hackett. The following year she played the lead role Isoult the
Desirous in The Forest Lovers at the Lyceum Theatre. She next appeared
in The Love Match at the Lyceum as Pansy de Castro and then in a long
engagement as Esméralda, in a road production of The Hunchback of
Notre Dame.
stage actress remembered for her romantic roles.Bertha Galland was the
daughter of Berthold Galland and Anna Miller Hawley. According to her
obituary in The New York Times, she was born near Wilkes-Barre,
Pennsylvania, though early travel documents and census records give
Bergen, New Jersey or New York City as her birthplace. Berthold
Galland was a native of Posen, Prussia (present-day Poznań, Poland)
who came to America in where he became a dry goods merchant and later
found success as a manufacturer of fashionable women’s lace
undergarments. Anna Galland (aka A. M. Galland), born in Harford,
Pennsylvania, was a talented marine and landscape artist. Anna’s
sister, Effie Julia Hawley, was the wife of Louis Arthur Watres, a
onetime Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania.Galland took to the stage
about age twenty after studying drama for several years in Europe and
later in America as a student of George Edgar, a former instructor of
actress Margaret Mather. In the summer of it was widely reported in
the press that the following season Galland would debut playing
Juliet, Lady Macbeth and Frou-Frou in a tour of New England. Two
months later though, the tour was cancelled after her father and uncle
withdrew their financial support for the venture. Later in she formed
a stock company with George Edgar performing “Comedy and Tragedyâ€
in engagements such as their December, presentations at the opera
house in Adams and the Columbia Opera House in North Adams,
Massachusetts, playing five select scenes taken from plays by
Shakespeare, Sheridan and Daly. An Adams theater critic later wrote,
“Lovers of good acting who failed to attend the performance of Miss
Bertha Galland and George Edgar at the opera house at Adams last
evening, missed one of the best attractions of the season.†Galland's
first major success came in at the Criterion Theatre in New York
playing Marie Ottilie in The Pride of Jennico opposite James K.
Hackett. The following year she played the lead role Isoult the
Desirous in The Forest Lovers at the Lyceum Theatre. She next appeared
in The Love Match at the Lyceum as Pansy de Castro and then in a long
engagement as Esméralda, in a road production of The Hunchback of
Notre Dame.
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