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Judith Lang Zaimont: Part I, Profile, Susan Cohn Lackman
Judith Lang Zaimont: Part I, Profile, Susan Cohn Lackman
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Maude Adams And The Mormons, J. Michael Hunter
Maude Adams And The Mormons, J. Michael Hunter
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Maude Ewing Adams Kiskadden was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1872. Her mother, Annie Adams, was the daughter of first generation Mormons who trekked across the plains and an actress at the Salt Lake Theatre. Maude Adams began her acting career at the age of five in some of her mother’s plays. She continued to act into her adult years, achieving her greatest success as the character Peter Pan, first playing the role in the 1905 Broadway production. She became the highest-paid performer of her day. Discussed here is Adams’s career and her relationship with her Mormon relatives …