Mamie Flower was known as the 'Bronze Melba,' after Dame Nellie Melba, an Australian sopranist. Flowers was a concert artist who performed with the William Foote's African American Character Company. The company toured throughout Germany in 1891. She later joined the Bob Cole's All-Star Stock Company and was recruited as the prima donna of John […]
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