That tender and graceful exponent of some of Shakespeare’s women,
Julia Marlowe, was born at Coldbeck, Cumberlandshire, England, August
17, 1870. She came with her parents to this country when she was five
years of age. After a period spent in Kansas, the family removed to
Cincinnati, where she attended public school until she was twelve years
of age. She then became a member of a juvenile opera company which
produced Pinafore, Chimes of Normandy, etc. After several years of
arduous work and study, she appeared in New York, but was a failure.
Not discouraged, however, she went to work to study again, and in the
spring of 1897 attained that recognition from a metropolitan audience
for which she had striven so faithfully. Since that time she has
advanced in her profession and has secured a prominent place among the
leading actresses of to-day.