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509 - Adah Isaacs Menken

The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds

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The Naked Lady

During the war easterners were worn down by four years of fighting, they didn't want to go out to shows. So ada got an offer to come to london, and off she went. Mazeppa and the lady opened on october third. She received 12 curtain calls on opening night. The top writers became her friends. Poet algernon charles swinburne wrote the poem law venice for her.

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