Jennie Mannheimer

Jennie Mannheimer (January 9, 1872 – May 26, 1943), also known professionally as Jane Manner, was an American elocutionist, acting coach, and teacher of speech and drama.

Her mother was a writer, translator, and inventor born in Prague, and her German-born father was a professor and librarian at Hebrew Union College.

[6] In 1914, she went traveling in Europe with her brother, only to encounter difficulty as the First World War began.

Her letters home to Cincinnati were quoted in the newspaper as first-hand accounts of the volatile situation.

[7] Mannheimer moved to New York, where she performed dramatic readings,[8] including at a Red Cross benefit during World War I.