Beulah Poynter (June , â€" August , ) was an American author,
playwright and actor. Though her career touched on Broadway and
Hollywood, Poynter was better known for her starring rôles with stock
and touring companies and as a prolific author of mystery and romance
stories. Poynter was probably best remembered by theatergoers for her
title rôle in Lena Rivers, a drama she had reworked for the stage
from the novel by Mary J. Holmes.Beulah Marguerite Poynter was born in
northern Missouri at Eagleville and raised in nearby Bethany. She was
the daughter of Henry Douglas Poynter and Lucy "Lula" Walters and an
older sister to brothers, Fred and Victor. Her father, a hotel
manager, was a Missourian whose family came from Kentucky, while her
mother was born in Iowa to parents who had migrated from Ohio. Poynter
was a paternal descendant of James Nevill, a veteran of the American
Revolutionary War from Virginia. In her youth Poynter attended area
schools before joining the chorus of a local opera company at around
the age of sixteen.By Poynter was a leading actress touring with the
Eastern Company in Out of the Fold, a comedy-drama by Langdon
McCormick. The following year she joined the Pavilion Stock Company to
play Bossy in their road production of Charles Hale Hoyt's farce
comedy, A Texas Steer. In August Poynter began a tour playing the
title rôle in a dramatization by Edward W. Roland and Edwin Clifford
of Charlotte Mary Brame's novel, Dora Thorne. A little over a year
later, beginning October , Poynter embarked on a tour with Nixon and
Co. performing the title rôle in Lena Rivers, a drama she had adapted
from the novel by Mary J. Holmes. The play proved to be a hit with
theatergoers and would tour with Poynter at the helm for four
seasons.In August Poynter began a tour presenting The Little Girl He
Forgot, a drama that she both wrote and, as June Holly, starred in.
The play toured into April and was followed that August by an
engagement at the Majestic Theatre in Fort Wayne, Indiana with
productions of her dramatization of Edward Eggleston's novel, The
Hoosier Schoolmaster, and Poynter’s original play Mother's Girl. In
October at the Park Theatre in Indianapolis she played Rosalie in
Edward Peple's drama The Call of the Cricket.
playwright and actor. Though her career touched on Broadway and
Hollywood, Poynter was better known for her starring rôles with stock
and touring companies and as a prolific author of mystery and romance
stories. Poynter was probably best remembered by theatergoers for her
title rôle in Lena Rivers, a drama she had reworked for the stage
from the novel by Mary J. Holmes.Beulah Marguerite Poynter was born in
northern Missouri at Eagleville and raised in nearby Bethany. She was
the daughter of Henry Douglas Poynter and Lucy "Lula" Walters and an
older sister to brothers, Fred and Victor. Her father, a hotel
manager, was a Missourian whose family came from Kentucky, while her
mother was born in Iowa to parents who had migrated from Ohio. Poynter
was a paternal descendant of James Nevill, a veteran of the American
Revolutionary War from Virginia. In her youth Poynter attended area
schools before joining the chorus of a local opera company at around
the age of sixteen.By Poynter was a leading actress touring with the
Eastern Company in Out of the Fold, a comedy-drama by Langdon
McCormick. The following year she joined the Pavilion Stock Company to
play Bossy in their road production of Charles Hale Hoyt's farce
comedy, A Texas Steer. In August Poynter began a tour playing the
title rôle in a dramatization by Edward W. Roland and Edwin Clifford
of Charlotte Mary Brame's novel, Dora Thorne. A little over a year
later, beginning October , Poynter embarked on a tour with Nixon and
Co. performing the title rôle in Lena Rivers, a drama she had adapted
from the novel by Mary J. Holmes. The play proved to be a hit with
theatergoers and would tour with Poynter at the helm for four
seasons.In August Poynter began a tour presenting The Little Girl He
Forgot, a drama that she both wrote and, as June Holly, starred in.
The play toured into April and was followed that August by an
engagement at the Majestic Theatre in Fort Wayne, Indiana with
productions of her dramatization of Edward Eggleston's novel, The
Hoosier Schoolmaster, and Poynter’s original play Mother's Girl. In
October at the Park Theatre in Indianapolis she played Rosalie in
Edward Peple's drama The Call of the Cricket.
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