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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, 91, oldest U. S. actress, cast in some 400 roles over a 63-year career; after long illness; in Montvale, Va. As Blanche Galton, daughter of a British opera singer, she made her London debut in 1865 in Turco the Terrible, appeared in Manhattan three years later, played the original U. S. "Buttercup" in Gilbert & Sullivan's H. M. S. Pinafore. In 1930 she emerged from retirement for a benefit performance of Trelawny of the Wells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 7, 1936 | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

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