Gertrude Bryan (July , â€" May , ) was an American stage actress who
appeared on Broadway in the early th century.Gertrude Modora Bryan was
born in Chicago the daughter of entertainers. Bryan's father, Frank, a
comedian known as Senator Bryan in The Military Man, later toured in a
vaudeville act called “Human Flags†by Frank D. Bryan's Peace
Congress of American Girls. Her mother, Nellie, was a singer in
Gilbert & Sullivan operas. Bryan attended the Friends Seminary, a
Quaker school, in Manhattan (New York).Bryan appeared in Little Boy
Blue at the Lyric Theatre (New York) in November . This was a romantic
operetta which had played Europe in the two previous theatrical
seasons. The musical was produced by Colonel Savage. Its title in
Europe had been Lord Piccolo. The American title had no connection to
the popular nursery rhyme of the same name.Bryan played the title
role. The plot is about a Scottish Earl who is looking for an heir.
The Earl employees a detective who persuades a barmaid to disguise
herself as the missing boy, and accompany the Earl to Scotland. The
operetta was performed in two acts. There were dual settings in Bal
Tarabin, Paris, France and the Earl's castle in Scotland. Nearly a
dozen applicants were auditioned before Bryan was chosen for the title
role.
appeared on Broadway in the early th century.Gertrude Modora Bryan was
born in Chicago the daughter of entertainers. Bryan's father, Frank, a
comedian known as Senator Bryan in The Military Man, later toured in a
vaudeville act called “Human Flags†by Frank D. Bryan's Peace
Congress of American Girls. Her mother, Nellie, was a singer in
Gilbert & Sullivan operas. Bryan attended the Friends Seminary, a
Quaker school, in Manhattan (New York).Bryan appeared in Little Boy
Blue at the Lyric Theatre (New York) in November . This was a romantic
operetta which had played Europe in the two previous theatrical
seasons. The musical was produced by Colonel Savage. Its title in
Europe had been Lord Piccolo. The American title had no connection to
the popular nursery rhyme of the same name.Bryan played the title
role. The plot is about a Scottish Earl who is looking for an heir.
The Earl employees a detective who persuades a barmaid to disguise
herself as the missing boy, and accompany the Earl to Scotland. The
operetta was performed in two acts. There were dual settings in Bal
Tarabin, Paris, France and the Earl's castle in Scotland. Nearly a
dozen applicants were auditioned before Bryan was chosen for the title
role.
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