| 词汇 | lillian russell |
| 词源 | Lillian Russell. Beautiful and flamboyant Lillian Russell was the toast of the town almost from the night she made her de- but at New York’s Tony Pastor’s Opera House in burlesques of Gilbert & Sullivan comic operas. Only 18 at the time, the sing- er and actress was fresh from Clinton, Iowa, where she had been born Helen Louise Leonard in 1861. For the next 30 years Lillian Russell’s beauty and talent for light opera brought her fame and fortune unsurpassed by any contemporary per- former. Success included her own company, a collection of male admirers that has probably never been matched since, and a number of sumptuous apartments and houses, such as her summer home in then fashionable Far Rockaway, New York, where she entertained lavishly. Among several things named for her were the Lillian Russell dessert, half a canta- loupe filled with a scoop of ice cream, and the town of Lillian Russell in central Kansas, which today has a population of about 6,200. |
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