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Show PAULINE HALL, NOTED j OPERA SINGER, DIES TONKERS, N Y., Dec. 29. Pauline Hall, long noted as a light opera singer, d!ed at her home here today of pneumonia. pneu-monia. She was on the stage for more than forty years. Miss Hall was horn In Cincinnati fifty-nine fifty-nine yeai'S ago, her maiden name being Pauline Fredeiicka Schmidgall. At 15 she made her first appearance on the stage as a ballet dancer. I'.ater she was in the chorus of a light opera, c m pa ry and appeared with Mary Anderson, playing Lady Capulet in "Romeo and Juliet." Hor first singing part was in 18S2 in a light opera known as "Tho Merry War." This was followed uy roles in various light operas and a short season with Nat Goodwin until she nndo her greatest success in originating the pait ut Srminie in the opera of that name, which played 800 performances hi New York and toured the country. M'.as Hail became the head of her own company in lSi)2, appearing as "Vivian, Earl of Boxrenlands," and played in a version of "Cyrano de i3ergerac" and other musical comedies. Of late years' she had appeared often In vaudeville. ! Miss Hall waa married in 1881 at St. ! Louis to Edward While, a mining man. whom she divorced. Jn 1S91 she married mar-ried George B. McLellan. a theatrical manager. They had one daughter. PauKne Ermlnie McLellan, who survives her mother. I |