Lillian Russell
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Lillian Russell was an American actress and singer. She became one of the most famous actresses and singers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, praised for her beauty and style, as well as for
Russell in 1898
in Patience, 1882
Russell in Giroflé-Girofla, 1890s
Russell with Frank Sheridan in the play Wildfire (1908)
Billee Taylor
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Billee Taylor, or The Reward of Virtue is "a nautical comedy opera" composed by Edward Solomon, with a libretto by Henry Pottinger Stephens. The satiric, cynical risqué story is based on the nautical
Arnold Breedon as Billee
Alice Burville as Arabella
Librettist and composer caricatured in a Punch review of their opera Claude Duval