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Countess Cassini and the Robson Belmont connection
The article recounts Countess Cassini rising from Washington social circles as a favored figure and notes Eleanor Robson’s stage career and engagement to August Belmont. It covers Cassini’s rapid promotion after aiding Li Hung Chang’s Pekin conference and sketches Robson’s breakthrough in 1897 and noted performances. It also profiles Ines Milholland and her sister Vida in the suffrage movement and public life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuntess
Margaret Cassini
Washington
Count Cassini
Cassiana
Cassini
Li Hung Ghang
Pekin
Eleanor Robson
August Belmont
New York
Marjory Knox
California Theater
San Francisco
Miss Robson
Aeitherto
Juliet
Kate Hard- Castle
Cercuer
New
Lorg
John E. Milholland
New ‘York
London
Woman’s Freedom Movement
Vida
Albany
Miss. Milholland