Mena Cleary

[3] She appeared as "Mirabel" in the original cast of the comic opera Prince Ananias by Victor Herbert, when it debuted in 1894.

[4] She also appeared in Girofle-Girofla in 1884[5] Fra Diavolo and The Poachers in 1888,[6] and in Robin Hood, Fatinitza and The Maid of Plymouth in 1894, with the Bostonians.

[7] In 1886, while performing in Fra Diavolo in New Haven, Connecticut, her hair caught fire from a lighted candle on stage.

[9] Her 1888 turn as "Ginetta" in The Poachers drew admiration from a critic in Minnesota, who assured readers that "she is a very clever actress, with such winning ways, and a smiling pretty face, and a voice, while it is not a very great volume, is sweet in tone and as clear as the sound of a bell.

"[6] Mena Cleary married "millionaire physician, yachtsman, and globe trotter" John Miller Masury in 1897; they divorced in 1909.