CHRYSTAL HERNE - AUTOGRAPH SENTIMENT SIGNED - HFSID 343808

CHRYSTAL HERNE
The early 1900s stage actress and daughter of the playwright James A. Herne signs her name with a sentiment
Autograph Sentiment Signed: "Faithfully yours/ Chrystal Herne" in black ink, 5½x2½. Chrystal Herne (1883-1950) was an American stage actress during the early decades of the twentieth century. She was the daughter of actor/playwright James A. Herne, and the younger sister of actress and Hollywood talent scout Julie Herne. Herne made her stage debut in Washington, D.C. at the age of sixteen as Sue Hardy in her father's play Rev. Griffith Davenport. Over the following two seasons she played Jane Cauldwell in Sag Harbor, written by her father. The play centered on a family affair with Herne and his daughters Julie and Chrystal playing principle roles. Moreover, she was remembered for playing the title role in Arnold Daly's production of Shaw's Candida during the 1905/06 season and as Vera Revendal opposite Walker Whiteside in Israel Zangwill's The Melting Pot that debuted in 1908 at the Columbia Theatre in Washington, D.C. A few of her other appearances came in a 1911 revival of The Squaw Man at the Broadway Theatre and a Morosco Theatre production of Craig's Wife, in which she played the title role opposite Charles Trowbridge. Herne appeared in some thirty-seven Broadway productions over the course of her career. Her last performance was in A Room in Red and White, which had a two-month run in January and February of 1936. Toned. Corners rounded. Mounting residue on verso. Otherwise, fine condition.