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Prima donna, was born at Riverside, New York, in 1878, and is a descendant of the famous Pickens family of South Caro lina, whose members distinguished themselves in the Revolution ary War, in battling for the Confederacy and in the making of the New South. Her grandfather was for many years United States Ambassador at St. Petersburg. With her sister, Jessie, she was reared in luxury, and the aptitude both displayed for vocal and instrumental music was fostered by special education in voice culture and banjo and guitar playing. Their father's death, however, left them in such straitened circumstances that they were forced to turn to account the talent which they had displayed at charity benefits and the drawing-room entertain ments of their friends. Going to New York, they obtained a place in the chorus of Augustin Daly's The Foresters com pany at his theatre. They attracted the attention of Edward E. Rice, and he engaged them for a singing specialty in his pro duction of 1492 at the Garden Theatre, New York, in 1894. In 1895 the sisters appeared with Mr. Rice's Little Christopher company, also at the Garden Theatre. They made up as street waifs and sang popular ballads to the accompaniment of their own banjos, guitars and mandolins. Miss Bessie Abbott, how ever, aspired to grand opera and in May, 1897, she went to Paris to study. December, 1901, she made her debut on the operatic stage as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. Her success was instantaneous. For several seasons after this she was the prima donna at the Grand Opera, Paris. In the winter of 1906 she returned to her native land and first appeared with the New York Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, New York City. After singing at several concerts she joined the Metropolitan Opera company.
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Prima donna, was born at Riverside, New York, in 1878, and is a descendant of the famous Pickens family of South Caro lina, whose members distinguished themselves in the Revolution ary War, in battling for the Confederacy and in the making of the New South. Her grandfather was for many years United States Ambassador at St. Petersburg. With her sister, Jessie, she was reared in luxury, and the aptitude both displayed for vocal and instrumental music was fostered by special education in voice culture and banjo and guitar playing. Their father's death, however, left them in such straitened circumstances that they were forced to turn to account the talent which they had displayed at charity benefits and the drawing-room entertain ments of their friends. Going to New York, they obtained a place in the chorus of Augustin Daly's The Foresters com pany at his theatre. They attracted the attention of Edward E. Rice, and he engaged them for a singing specialty in his pro duction of 1492 at the Garden Theatre, New York, in 1894. In 1895 the sisters appeared with Mr. Rice's Little Christopher company, also at the Garden Theatre. They made up as street waifs and sang popular ballads to the accompaniment of their own banjos, guitars and mandolins. Miss Bessie Abbott, how ever, aspired to grand opera and in May, 1897, she went to Paris to study. December, 1901, she made her debut on the operatic stage as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. Her success was instantaneous. For several seasons after this she was the prima donna at the Grand Opera, Paris. In the winter of 1906 she returned to her native land and first appeared with the New York Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, New York City. After singing at several concerts she joined the Metropolitan Opera company.
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Adams, Miss Maude (Kiskadden):
Actress, was born in Salt Lake City November 11, 1872. Her father was James Kiskadden, a business man. Her mother, a well-known actress, Mrs. Annie Adams, the daughter of a Utah pioneer who claimed to come from John Quincy Adams stock, is still playing. When Maude was born, Annie Adams was leading woman at the Salt Lake Theatre, which enjoyed the special patronage of Brigham Young. Phil Margetts, an Englishman, now the proprietor of a liquor store in Salt Lake City, but formerly a popular comedian, claims the distinction of first putting Miss Maude Adams on the stage, or, rather, of carrying her there. The future star was just nine months old when a play called "The Lost Child" was being produced at the Salt Lake Theatre. She had been taken to the theatre by a nurse. Margetts was cast for the father of the lost child. At the last moment he found he was expected to fondle a rag doll. While he was lamenting this, Mrs. Kiskadden went to the wings with Maude in her arms. Margetts snatched the baby from her and dashed on to the stage. When she was five years old, in 1877, Miss Maude Adams played her first speaking part, Little Schneider, at the old Bush Theatre, San Francisco, with J. K. Emmet in one of his "Fritz" plays. She also played Chrystal in "Chums," by David Belasco, who had just risen from call boy to stage manager at the Baldwin Theatre. In the cast were James O'Neill, Lewis Morrison and the late James A. Herne. When she was six years old she was sent to school, where she remained until she was sixteen. Immediately on leaving school Miss Adams played the part of a schoolmistress in Hoyt's "A Midnight Bell," produced at the Madison Square Theatre, New York, in 1888. She afterward played in "Men and Women" and created the part of the crippled girl in "The Lost Paradise," which first attracted attention to her.
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