Alice_Johnson_(actress)
Alice Johnson (actress)
American Broadway actress and singer (1860–1914)
Alice Johnson (born 1860, died New York City, November 25, 1914) was a Broadway actress and singer,[1] active at the beginning of the 20th century.[2] She began her career in the chorus in light opera.[3] She later became a member of the Murray Hill Theatre Stock Company. In a single season she was seen in "no less than thirty roles running the entire gamut of the modern stage."[1] The company was founded by Henry V. Donnelly (1862–1910).[4] The company gave two performances daily and changed the play each week. Alice played everything from Lady Macbeth to Peggy in A Tin Soldier by Temple Bailey.[3]
She was also the leading actress in the Frawley Company, a stock company founded by T. Daniel Frawley in San Francisco, when it was at the zenith of its popularity.[5] She was married to Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Butler, the son of Colonel George Harris Butler and actress Rose Eytinge, until his untimely death in 1904 at the age of thirty-three.[1]
She is buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C.[6]
