Margaret Anglin
American Actress
1876 – 1958 A.D.

Margaret Anglin, an American actress, daughter of the Hon. T.W. Anglin, who at the time of her birth, at Ottawa, Canada, was Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons.

She studied in New York, and made her first success as Roxane, in Richard Mansfield’s presentation of Cyrano de Bergerac. After playing a number of important productions, she went to Australia in 1908 – 1909, where she appeared in Shakespearean rôles. In recent years her revivals of the Greek tragedies have distinguished her as a dramatic artist of rare intelligence and ability.

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Reference: Famous Women; An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women By Joseph Adelman. Copyright, 1926 by Ellis M. Lonow Company.