area. It was designed to seat 300 people and had an opening date scheduled for November 1, 1913, the first day of the theatrical season. Aside from Sitgreaves all members of the theatre company were from the Paris Conservatoire. Bernhardt was playing in New York at the time and sent a letter to Sitgreaves expressing support when she was solicited for assistance. $2,000 a Night, written by Leo Ditrichstein, Frederic Hatton, and Fannie Hatton, was Ditrichstein's first effort when he was managed by Cohan & Harris. As an actor, he was supported by Sitgreaves, Virginia Fox Brooks, and Isabel Irving. The theatrical opened in Syracuse, New York, and moved to New York City later. The New York Play Actors took over the Adolph Phillip Theatre in the autumn of 1914. It was remodeled and redecorated before it was renamed the Bandbox Theatre. The Bandbox was located at 37 West Fordham Road, (west of Davidson Avenue) in the Bronx, New York. It reopened on December 24, 1924, with a production of the comedy Poor Little Thing, by Jules Le Maitre. It was translated from the French original by Jerome K. Jerome. Sitgreaves was among the stage players along with Janet Dunbar and William Raymond. Help Wanted-Female by Gladys Unger was staged by Winchell Smith in 1926. Sitgreaves, Nydia Westman, Grace Menken and Wallace Ford were actors in the cast. Philanthropist Sitgreaves participated in a benefit at the Waldorf-Astoria to raise money for an annex of the Loomis Sanitorium for Consumptives at Liberty (village), New York. She entertained by giving impersonations of Bernhardt and Eleanor Duse. She made an appearance for the British War Relief Society at the Lyceum Theatre (New York) in November 1914. She was featured in the melodrama, Gruesome Grange, together with Anthony Hope and Frank Kemble Cooper. In February 1923 she provided impersonations of Duse and Bernhardt in a benefit called a vaudeville soiree de gala at the Booth Theatre. It assisted the Girls Service Club at 138 East Nineteenth Street in New York City. Sitgreaves did Duse from Francesca di Rimini and Bernhardt's To be, or not to be from Hamlet. The Institute of the Woman's Theatre gave a benefit performance at the Klaw Theatre, 251 West 45th Street, New York City, on October 31, 1926. Sitgreaves contributed to the event which was organized by Florence Reed, star of The Shanghai Gesture. Death Sitgreaves died at her