Paulina Clarissa Molony. Paulina Clarissa Molony, known professionally as Saharet, was an Australian dancer who performed in vaudeville music houses as well as in Broadway productions in the United States as well as in Europe, earning considerable fame and notoriety.
Saharet was born Paulina Clarissa Molony on March 23, 1878 in Richmond, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia to Irish-born tailor Benjamin Robert Molony and Elizabeth Ah Foon, a woman of part Chinese ancestry from Ballarat. By her own account she was born in Melbourne on March 24, 1879.
During her career her birth name was given as Clarice Campbell. It was also claimed she had been born in Ballarat, the birthplace of her mother, and had appeared on stage in Australia as a juvenile.
It is unknown where she learned to dance, or how she found her way to the United States, but in May 1891, at the age of 13, she had joined the Liliputians, a company performing at San Francisco's Baldwin Theater as Clarice Campbell. In 1894 she had taken the stage name Saharet and toured the United States with Michael B. Leavitt's Spider and Fly vaudeville company, while in 1895 she was associated with the The Night Owls vaudeville company.
At the age of 18, in May 1896, she married Isaac Rosenstamm, a German-born entrepreneur from New York, later known as Ike Rose. Their daughter Caroline Madelon was born in November 1896 in New York. Rose managed her career, even
Saharet was born Paulina Clarissa Molony on March 23, 1878 in Richmond, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia to Irish-born tailor Benjamin Robert Molony and Elizabeth Ah Foon, a woman of part Chinese ancestry from Ballarat. By her own account she was born in Melbourne on March 24, 1879.
During her career her birth name was given as Clarice Campbell. It was also claimed she had been born in Ballarat, the birthplace of her mother, and had appeared on stage in Australia as a juvenile.
It is unknown where she learned to dance, or how she found her way to the United States, but in May 1891, at the age of 13, she had joined the Liliputians, a company performing at San Francisco's Baldwin Theater as Clarice Campbell. In 1894 she had taken the stage name Saharet and toured the United States with Michael B. Leavitt's Spider and Fly vaudeville company, while in 1895 she was associated with the The Night Owls vaudeville company.
At the age of 18, in May 1896, she married Isaac Rosenstamm, a German-born entrepreneur from New York, later known as Ike Rose. Their daughter Caroline Madelon was born in November 1896 in New York. Rose managed her career, even
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