Bertha Galland
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| Born |
November 15, 1876 Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. |
| Died | November 20, 1932 (aged 56) White Plains, New York, USA |
| Occupation | Stage Actress |
Bertha Galland (November 15, 1876 – November 20, 1932) was an American dramatic stage actress remembered for her romantic roles.
She was the daughter of Berthold Galland and the former Anna Miller Hawley. According to her New York Times obituary she was born near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, though early travel documents and census records give Bergen, New Jersey or New York City as her birthplace. Berthold Galland was a native of Posen, Prussia (today Poznań, Poland) who came to America in 1860 where he became a. dry goods merchant and later found success as a manufacturer of fashionable women’s lace undergarments. Anna Galland (aka A.M. Galland), born in Harford, Pennsylvania, was a talented marine and landscape artist. Anna’s sister, Effie Julia Hawley, was the wife of Louis Arthur Watres, a onetime Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania.
Galland took to the stage about age twenty after studying drama for several years in Europe and later in America as a student of George Edgar, a former instructor of actress Margaret Mather. In the summer of 1895 it was widely reported in the press that the following season Galland would debut playing Juliet, Lady Macbeth and Frou-Frou in a tour of New England. Two months later though, the tour was cancelled after her father and uncle withdrew their financial support for the venture. Later in 1896 she formed a stock company with George Edgar performing “Comedy and Tragedy” in engagements such as their December, 1896 presentations at the opera house in Adams and the Columbia Opera House in North Adams, Massachusetts, playing five select scenes taken from plays by Shakespeare, Sheridan and Daly. An Adams theater critic later wrote, “Lovers of good acting who failed to attend the performance of Miss Bertha Galland and George Edgar at the opera house at Adams last evening, missed one of the best attractions of the season.”
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