Blanche Bates (August , â€" December , ) was an American actress. She
made her début in San Francisco in a benefit performance of Brander
Matthews's This Picture and That. Among her early successes were her
Mrs. Hillary in The Senator, Phyllis in The Charity Ball, and Nora in
A Doll's House. She joined Daly's company in and, the next year at
Daly's Theatre in New York, played Mirtza in The Great Ruby. In she
appeared as Cigarette in Under Two Flags at the Garden Theatre in New
York. Thereafter devoting herself to the productions of David Belasco,
she won great success in The Darling of the Gods () and The Girl of
the Golden West () and after World War I in The Famous Mrs. Fair ().In
, H.M. Caldwell Company, New York and Boston, published a lavish
souvenir book, Blanche Bates Edition of "Under Two Flags" by Ouida,
with handsome illustrated covers, and numerous photographs from the
play version (written by Paul M. Potter) starring Bates.Born in
Portland, Oregon, the daughter of F. M. Bates, Blanche was educated in
the public schools of San Francisco. In Bates married Milton F.
Davis, at the time a cavalry lieutenant in the U.S. Army, but they
divorced four weeks later. On November , she married George Creel, a
journalist and politician, and they had two children, a son George Jr.
and a daughter Frances.
made her début in San Francisco in a benefit performance of Brander
Matthews's This Picture and That. Among her early successes were her
Mrs. Hillary in The Senator, Phyllis in The Charity Ball, and Nora in
A Doll's House. She joined Daly's company in and, the next year at
Daly's Theatre in New York, played Mirtza in The Great Ruby. In she
appeared as Cigarette in Under Two Flags at the Garden Theatre in New
York. Thereafter devoting herself to the productions of David Belasco,
she won great success in The Darling of the Gods () and The Girl of
the Golden West () and after World War I in The Famous Mrs. Fair ().In
, H.M. Caldwell Company, New York and Boston, published a lavish
souvenir book, Blanche Bates Edition of "Under Two Flags" by Ouida,
with handsome illustrated covers, and numerous photographs from the
play version (written by Paul M. Potter) starring Bates.Born in
Portland, Oregon, the daughter of F. M. Bates, Blanche was educated in
the public schools of San Francisco. In Bates married Milton F.
Davis, at the time a cavalry lieutenant in the U.S. Army, but they
divorced four weeks later. On November , she married George Creel, a
journalist and politician, and they had two children, a son George Jr.
and a daughter Frances.
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