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After watching her on stage, he asked her to audition at his playhouse. He watched her perform while he sat incognito in one of the theater's seats. "After twenty minutes," he said, "I knew I was watching a very talented and unusual young woman." He then offered her the leading role in
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Lenore Ulrich was born on July 21, 1892, to Franz Xavier Ulrich, who was a United States Army hospital steward, and Ida Ulrich (née
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in 1913, after Ulric wrote to him requesting that he see her on stage. Belasco, who would go on "fishing trips" to find new stage talents, recalled that it was often a long time between "bites," but he enjoyed the sport as he sometimes would "hook a big one."
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had small roles in the production.) She told a critic, "I certainly never really left the theater." Belasco had managed her stage career until shortly before his death. In a tribute to
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All of us who were with him depended upon him so much that we'd just flounder around and say, "What do I do now?" He was a good soldier, a hard worker, and a great director.
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