Alice Russon Explained
| Alice Russon |
| Birth Place: | Dublin, Ireland |
| Nationality: | Irish |
| Occupation: | Actress |
Alice Russon was an Irish actress, singer, and dancer in musical comedies and in silent films.
Early life
Alice Russon was born in Dublin.[1]
Career
On stage, Russon appeared in The Girl from Kay's (1904),[2] Cinderella (1907), The Belle of Mayfair (1907),[3] Mr. George (1907),[4] Little Red Riding Hood (1908),[5] The Arcadians (1911),[6] Ready Money (1912-1913),[7] Something Simple (1916), and Anthony in Wonderland (1917). She was on a variety show bill with Will Rogers headlining, at the Palace Theatre in Oklahoma in 1906.[8] In 1912 and 1913, she was in Australia,[9] where she starred in a pantomime show, Puss in Boots, in Melbourne.[10] A reviewer in Atlanta, Georgia in 1910 described her as "one of the daintiest and most winsome little women who ever trod the land that lies beyond the footlights in Atlanta."[11]
In 1911, while working in San Francisco, California, she submitted a proposal for a "theatorium" at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition to be held in that city in 1915.[12]
British silent films featuring Alice Russon include All Men Are Liars (1919), After Many Days (1918) and Democracy (1918).[13]
Personal life
She married a fellow actor, Vernon Davidson. They had at least one child by 1913.[14] [15] She owned a camera and enjoyed taking photos when she was travelling for work.[16]
External links
Notes and References
- https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15464244/alice_russon_1911/ "Miss Russon of 'The Arcadians' is an O'Connor of Dublin"
- https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15464789/alice_russon_1904/ "Prince's Theatre: The Girl from Kay's"
- https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15464166/alice_russon_1907/ "Gaiety Theatre"
- https://books.google.com/books?id=o6RFAQAAMAAJ&dq=Alice+Russon&pg=PA452 "Mr. George, a Comedy by Louis N. Parker, at the Vaudeville Theatre"
- https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15463796/alice_russon_1908/ "Little Red Riding Hood"
- Edward F. O'Day, "In Arcady and Elsewhere" San Francisco Daily Times (19 February 1911): 18.
- J. P. Wearing, The London Stage 1910-1919: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel (Scarecrow Press 2013).
- Richard Irving Dodge and Will Rogers, The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge (University of Oklahoma Press 2000): 297 note 1.
- Dria, "A Chat with Miss Alice Russon (Principal Girl)" Critic (3 September 1913): 17. via Trove
- C. R. B., "Greenroom Gossip" Punch (12 December 1912): 42. via Trove
- https://search-proquest-com.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/news/docview/496319414/4E1AF43C346D4600PQ/17 "Arcadian Music Draws Big Crowds to Orpheum"
- https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15468984/alice_russon_1911/ "Stage Topics"
- Denis Gifford, ed., British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film (Routledge 2016).
- http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/45225474 "Miss Alice Russon"
- http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/176031873 "Fact and Rumour"
- http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/228694193?searchTerm=Alice%20Russon&searchLimits= "Alice with her Camera"
