Carrie Niehaus Myers was the sister of my great-grandmother Anna Niehaus Creeden. According to family stories, Carrie was a fantastic pianist and one of her jobs was playing piano at a theater during the silent film era. The 1910 census for Mercer County, Ohio shows Carrie was playing piano at a theater as early as age 17.
I was hoping to find some information on where she played, but haven't had any luck so far. Three theaters are mentioned in an article published in The Celina Democrat on September 4, 1914: The Rex and Bijou motion picture houses and The Eagle Theater. I would guess she played at one of them.
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| The Celina Democrat, September 4, 1914 |
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Kathryn, my great-grandmother was also said to have been a talented musician, playing piano and violin, and supposedly also played at the silent movies, in Dublin. I have not found documentary confirmation of this so far either, although her occupation was described as musician in the census returns. What a coincidental parallel!
ReplyDeleteThat is an interesting parallel! My grandmother was an identical twin and they played violin and piano, so that's even another coincidence. Thanks for stopping by! Sorry on the delay. I just realized that Blogger still isn't notifying me about comments.
DeleteKathryn, in your Blogger settings, under 'posts, comments and sharing, delete you email address, save the changes, then input it again, and save the changes. Do the same in the 'email' section. It then worked for me.
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