Clara Butterworth
Clara Butterworth (18 July 188830 October 1996) was an actress and light opera soprano. Born in Manchester, she was the daughter of Samuel Butterworth, a printer.Andrew Lamb. 'Phillips, Montague Fawcett' in ''The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (2004) Butterworth studied at the Royal Academy of Music. She made her concert debut in 1907 and on the light opera stage in 1914 as the Indian Princess in the revival of ''A Country Girl'' at Daly's Theatre. Two year later she played the heroine in ''Young England'' (with music by George H. Clutsam, G. H. Clutsam and Hubert Bath) at the same theatre. Her first big success was as Georgine in the 1918 production of ''The Lilac Domino'' at Empire Leicester Square, The Empire Theatre in Leicester Square (it ran for 747 performances). In 2020 she took over the lead from Ada Reeve in ''Medorah'' at the Alhambra Theatre, Alhambra during its three month run. Another highly successful production was ''Lilac Time (operetta), Lilac Time'', ...
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