Jennie Kimball

[3] Upon the completion of her studies, she was engaged by Manager Whitman for leading soubrette business in the Continental Theater, Boston, in 1868, appearing as Cinderella in H. J. Byron's burlesque, and Stalacta in The Black Crook, which ran the entire season.

She afterwards played a star engagement with him in the West, appearing as Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and singing the title role in The Grand Duchess in Buffalo, Louisville, Chicago, St. Louis and other cities, winning unqualified approbation.

After concluding her engagement with Whitman, she returned to the East and traveled through New England as prima donna of the Florence Burlesque Opera Company, until she was engaged by John Brougham for his New York Company, in 1869, and opened in March in Brougham's Fifth Avenue Theater, now the Madison Square, in the operetta of Jenny Lind, afterward playing Kate O'Brien in Perfection, and other musical comedies.

In 1872, she was especially engaged in the Union Square Theater (under the management of Sheridan Shook) as stock star, playing all the leading parts in the burlesques, Ernani, The Field of the Cloth of Cold, Bad Dickey, Black-Eyed Susan, Aladdin, The Invisible Prince, and others, and remaining there two seasons.

Pinafore, in the Boston Theater, Kimball retired from the profession, in order to devote her whole time and attention to Corinne's professional advancement.

After the celebrated trial, which gave Kimball and her adopted daughter, Corinne, such notoriety, they opened in the Bijou Opera House, December 31, 1881, and played four weeks, thence continuing throughout the United States and Canada, winning marked success.

Corinne’s first part was Little Buttercup, in “Pinafore,” but when she was still a child, she starred in the prima donna roles in Olivette, The Mascotte, and dozens of light operas.