Ada Reeve
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Ada Reeve was an English actress of both stage and film. Reeve began to perform in pantomime and music hall as a child. She gained fame in Edwardian musical comedies in the 1890s.
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Reeve in The Medal and the Maid (1903)
Ada Reeve (1874 - 1966), Sydney, 1910-1913
Bert Gilbert, Reeve's first husband
Lily Elsie
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Elsie Cotton, known professionally as Lily Elsie, was an English actress and singer during the Edwardian era. She was best known for her starring role in the London premiere of Franz Lehár's operetta
Ada Reeve
…play in pantomime, which she enjoyed very much, often as Aladdin. Reeve remarried in 1902 to Wilfred Cotton, a manager and actor who was the uncle of Lily Elsie. That year, she leased the Eden Theatre, Brighton, on behalf of her new husband. However, she caught typhoid fever on a trip to Germany and consequently…
Lily Elsie by James Jebusa Shannon, c. 1916
Elsie in The Count of Luxembourg
The Merry Widow, Act 3, London, 1907
Wedding photo, 1911