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Marlowe (JULIA an American actress born)

JULIA, an American actress; born in Caldbeck, England, Aug. 17, 1870; came with her parents to the United States in 1875; joined the Juvenile Opera Company in 1882, and played in "Pinafore," "Chimes of Normandy," etc., in which she was known as Frances ; subsequently she took a child's different shades of color for each hair, part in "Rip Van Winkle." Afterward which is dusky at the root, reddish in she studied in New York for three years and then appeared on the metropolitan stage as Parthenia in "Ingomar." In In 1888 she began to star in Shakespearean and other romantic and tragic rôles in the United States and became one of the most popular artists on the American stage. stage. She married, in 1894, Robert divorced him in 1899. In 1918 she married Edward H. Sothern, with whom she had acted as co-star for several years preceding. With her husband she toured the United States annually in Shakespearean repertoire. She retired from the stage in 1914, but in 1920, with her husband, again played Shakespearean rôles in the United States. From an artistic standpoint the Sothern-Marlowe productions were the most notable of their time.