Corinne Malvern a character supposed to be three years old), a 1907 New York Evening Telegram article and ships' passenger records, make it clear she was born in 1901. Malvern performed in the Henry W. Savage New English Grand Opera Company in the American premiere of Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly in the role of the child "Dolore" ("Sorrow," or "Trouble" in English), Butterfly's son, in front of an audience that included the Viscount Aoki, Japanese Ambassador to the United States, and John Luther Long, author of the novella on which the opera was based, on October 15, 1907, and subsequently toured with
Spalding Amateur Dramatic And Operatic Society Spalding Amateur Dramatic And Operatic Society Spalding Amateur Dramatic & Operatic Society of Spalding, Lincolnshire is the oldest Amateur Theatre society in England. The South Holland Centre is the current venue for performances. In 1866 a group of Spalding Gentlemen formed an Amateur Society for the performance of plays, some of which must have been musical plays as accounts show charges of £5 5s for an orchestra. In 1928 an Operatic Society was formed to present musical plays and the happy union of this society with the older society created SADOS, as it is known today. In 1969 an urgent