Agnes Ethel

Agnes Ethel (May 1, 1845 – May 26, 1903) She was especially talented in acting emotional roles.

Theatrical career She was a protégé of Mathilde Heron at Jerome's private theatre in New York. It was situated on the southeast corner of Twenty-Sixth Street. She studied for a year afterward, accepting minor parts. by T. W. Robertson. It began playing at the Fifth Avenue Theatre on August 16, 1869. She was in the first production of Frou Frou in the United States. The Augustin Daly stock company staged it at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, on February 15, 1870. Kate Newton, Davenport, and George Clarke were other cast members. Ethel appeared in Fernande, also at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, in June 1870. A critic wrote that her acting was her best thus far.

In September 1872, she appeared in Agnes, presented by the Union Square Theatre. The play was written especially for her by Victorien Sardou. It ran for one hundred nights.

She retired at the height of her career for quiet domesticity. She took part in charities and assisted struggling actors and actresses. Tracy died in 1886. His will was contested by his first wife for her daughter. The entire fortune was awarded to Ethel after it was contested in court. In October 1890, she married Clinton DeWitt Roudebush; they divorced in 1901.