Today is the birthday of Kate Bateman (1842-1917) She and her sister Ellen were child prodigies of the stage, the daughters of the performing couple Hezekiah Linthicum Bateman and Sidney Frances Bateman. The Bateman children were unique in not playing age appropriate roles — they did such material as the tragedies of Shakespeare in ADULT [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:02AM on October 7, 2012