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Olga Roller (1884-1968) was a singer and actor who performed in musicals and comic operas, including several by Henry Blossom and Victor Herbert. The Olga Roller papers document her career from 1908 to 1926. The collection contains production photographs from the Broadway show Eileen (1917), promotional photographs of Roller, a signed photograph of Charlotte Greenwood, programs from The Soul Kiss (circa 1911) and Madame Moselle (1914), a promotional postcard for Madame Moselle, clippings, three letters written by Harry Child of Henry W. Savage, Inc. regarding Roller, and one 1916 letter to Roller from W.H. Oviatt regarding the possibility of a role in a Herbert-Blossom production. Clippings are mounted on scrapbook pages. They date from 1908 to 1926 and concern productions such as The Merry Widow (circa 1908), Eileen, Madame Moselle, and Hearts of Erin (1917). less

Olga (Kahaun) Roller (1884-1968) was a singer and actor who performed in musicals and comic operas, including several by Henry Blossom and Victor Herbert. The Rosemary Pilkington collection of Olga Roller papers, dated 1913 to circa 1960, holds mostly photographs of Roller during her career on stage (the productions were unidentified), a book entitled Faces & Facts that includes minor biographical information about her husband Eddie Fink, two letters, contracts, promotional card for Madame Moselle and copies of Roller's death certificate and her son Gilbert Roller Guerrico's birth certificate. less