company was a sixteen-year-old Atherton. Three years later she married her English co-performer, Willie, on December 27, 1873, in St Louis. Together they became mainstays of the Coville burlesque companies. He organized the entertainment "Dreams, or Fun in the Photograph Gallery," a piece that showed off her skill for impersonation and popularized the comic skit as a stage form. Atherton’s image on promotional picture cards According to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in NYC, which displays her cards, they were issued between 1880 and 1892 by Thomas H. Hall Tobacco, in order to promote stage actors between the acts as well as the brand called Bravo Cigarettes. Move to England Atherton moved to London with her English husband in 1883. There she would spend the majority of the final decade and a half of her career in music halls. During this period, Meyer Lutz, the German-born British composer and conductor who is best known for light music, musical theatre and burlesques of well-known works composed the popular song "Eyes of English Blue" for her. In 1885 she took to the stage at the Prince's Theatre in Bristol and the Novelty Theatre in London, alongside Harriet Vernon, Lionel Brough and of course Willie Edouin in The Japs; or, The Doomed Daimio, a burlesque by Harry Paulton and Mostyn Teddea. On February 25, 1888, her husband began his first managerial period at the Royal Strand Theatre, producing "Katti, the Family Help", with both of them playing the lead characters. In 1894 she starred as Jane in Jaunty Jane Shore at the Royal Strand Theatre. Return to New York Atherton eventually returned to the American vaudeville stage in 1897. Personal Atherton had two daughters May and Daisy, and both took to the stage, and in honor of their mother they adopted the stage names of May Atherton (b. February 18, 1875) and Daisy Atherton (b. September 30, 1876). Both were born in London, England. Daisy starred in The Torch-Bearers and other theatrical productions on Broadway. She also played roles in the first “talkies” during the 1920’s, known as Vitaphone Varieties. Her sister Lavinia Hogan, also had a successful career on the stage both sides of the Atlantic, and was known as Venie Atherton, who continued her own career on stage until 1926. Death She died on February 4, 1899, at her apartment within the Hotel Audubon in New York City of pneumonia. The