Lillian Niederaur (1915) 🇺🇸

Lillian Niederaur is a native of Boston, where she received her schooling and grew up from a child to womanhood.

At the age of eighteen Miss Niederaur was much in demand at local amateur entertainments and was very popular with the society people whom she entertained at the receptions. It was at one of these local affairs that Manager Dennison of the Malley-Dennison Stock Company, then playing at the Savoy theater, Boston, saw and observed her dramatic ability.

This meeting resulted in a trial engagement for Miss Niederaur at the Savoy theater, and her clever portrayal of the character she had been cast for was so pronounced she was immediately placed on the regular payroll of the theater, after which she played many important roles, remaining with the Malley-Dennison Stock Company several seasons continuously.

Leaving Boston, she joined a number of traveling road shows, all artistically successful but some of them financially disastrous; but it gave Miss Niederaur much practical experience in theatricals. Later, Miss Niederaur arrived in New York, but her past reputation as an accomplished ingénue and character woman had preceded her and she was quickly engaged by A. G. Delamater to play a difficult role in Graustark. The following season Miss Niederaur engaged with the Cohan & Harris [George M. Cohan | Sam H. Harris] forces to play an important role in Nearly Married.

During the early part of the current season Miss Niederaur was leading woman with the Hamilton Players of New York City and at the same time played the leads for the Sterling Camera & Film Company in its film productions, making her first appearance in the five-part New York detective story, The Game of Three, as Mazie King, the adventuress.

Miss Niederaur is a very beautiful woman and an accomplished actress.

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Collection: Moving Picture World, October 1915

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see also Norbert Lusk (1915)