Gertrude Quinlan

In this capacity, she sang with the Castle Square forces in New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Chicago, and St. Louis.

She varied her operatic experience a bit by playing part of a season in a melodrama entitled "The Red, White and Blue."

[7] Quinlan's first appearance in New York was at the American Theatre, January 17, 1898, in "The Lily of Killarney," taking the part of Anne Shute.

During the following summer, she played one of the two principals in "Red, White, and Blue," a war drama, with Raymond Hitchcock, creating the character of Hetty Hall, an American girl, the company making a tour of the small cities around New York.

This was followed by "Shenandoah" at the Academy of Music, where she characterized Junie Buckthome, the General's daughter, until in the summer of 1901 when she rejoined the Castle Square Opera Company at the Studebaker Theatre in Chicago.

She made her first distinct success as Broni Slava in the "Beggar Student," and became an especial favorite as Pitti Sing in The Mikado while in Chicago.

[7] She was always under the management of the Castle Square Opera Company, and rendered them several important services, which naturally advanced her in their estimation and in her profession.