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Bonnie Maginn

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Maginn also owned a large cattle ranch in Montana, and was believed to be a multi-millionaire in 1905. In 1906, she was living in New York City, but was identified as the owner of an automobile seen speeding over the legal Sunday limit of 10 miles per hour in
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Maginn was an artists' model, "said to be the most pictured young woman of her age in America" in 1901, and a vaudeville performer, usually in
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in 1903. She and the rest of the cast survived the massive and fatal theatre fire during the show's run.
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Maginn was the companion of wealthy West Virginia landowner John T. Davis, whose father was politician
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Bonnie Maginn, from the Burr-McIntosh Photograph Collection, New-York Historical Society
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Broadway appearances, 1899-1906; was in the cast of the show during the
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at the Chicago Opera House. She was a featured dancer in
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shows in New York. In 1901 she shared the bill with
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A young white woman, standing, wearing a light-colored pleated and lace-trimmed dress with an off-the-shoulder neckline, and a large hat; her hair is voluminous and falls longer than her shoulders.
Iroquois Theatre fire
vaudeville
Chicago
soubrette
Weber & Fields
David Warfield
Fay Templeton
DeWolf Hopper
Lillian Russell
Klaw and Erlanger
Iroquois Theatre
Frank Daniels
Joe Weber
Marie Dressler
Flora Zabelle
Tonawanda, New York
Henry Gassaway Davis
breach of promise
John Barrymore
Kew Gardens, New York
"Bonnie Magin's Rapid Rise as a Stage Star"
The Pittsburgh Press


"Bonnie Maginn was with a Millionaire"
The Philadelphia Inquirer
"John R. Maginn is Dead"
San Francisco Examiner
"The Pretty Girl Models of Gotham"

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