RUSSELL, LILLIAN

(1861-1922), American singer; 6. in Olinton, Iowa. Educated at the convent of the Sacred Heart, Chicago, studied voice and violin, and opera under Leopold Damrosch; first stage appearance in Rice’s Pinafore Company, 1879, and next sang ballads at Tony Pastor’s variety theatre, when she adopted the stage name ‘Lillian Ru ell’; Casino, New York, 1899, with Weber & Fields several seasons, and the McCaull Opera Co., and then starred in operas. In 1913 she lectured on How to Live a Hundred Years. In 1921-22 she went to Europe for the government to study the immigration question and made a report to the Immigration Committee in the House in April 1922.