Josephine Victor

Victor was born in the Tokay Hills in Hungary in 1885,[1] and moved to New York City as a child.

[3] She began performing with the Howard Kyle Company,[4] and made headlines as early as 1906, when her costume caught fire on stage, and she doused the flames without breaking character.

[5] On Broadway she debuted in The Secret Orchard by Channing Pollock (1908), and appeared in The Temperamental Journey (1913),[6] The Yellow Ticket (1914),[7] The Bargain by Hermann Georg Scheffauer (1915),[8] Just a Woman by Eugene Walter (1916),[9] Martinique by Laurence Eyre (1920),[10] Dolly Jordan by Ben Iden Payne (1922),[11] The Cup (1923),[12] Judgment Day by Elmer Rice (1934),[4] Wise Tomorrow (1937),[13] and finally Summer Night (1939).

Later, as Josephine Victor Reid, she wrote The Prize Pig's Tea-party (1934), a play, How to Get Rich (1930).

She also co-wrote two plays, Clay Pigeon (1936, with Marjorie Paradis) and Read about Laura Keene (1937, with I. S. Strouse).