Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1912 — Girl Well Known Here to Play at Lafayette Theatre. [ARTICLE]

Girl Well Known Here to Play at Lafayette Theatre.

Mi;s. Ivah Wills Coburn, who as a girl lived in Brookston and who was quite well known in Renselaer, having visited here and delivered readings here when she was Miss Ivah Wills, will appear at the Dryfus theatre at Lafayette Friday and Saturday nights of this week in ajepertoire of Shakesperean plays in a company managed by her husband, Charles Donvine Coburn. Miss Will? graduated from the Brookston high school in 1896 and after taking a course in a normal school at Ada, Ohio, and teaching a year, she entered the Chicago School of Dramatic Art. She was very talented and has enjoyed a steady rise in the theatrical profession. A large number of her old Brookston friends will attend the Dryfus during her visit there and it is probable that some Rensselaer friends will also See her..