Yukon who is who

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Gussie Lamore
	
Gussie Lamore was in a variety show in Juneau when she heard about the Klondike strike. She joined three girls and four men to form a company of actors and travelled to Dawson. They put on their first show in a tent, and a local newspaper called Gussie the Klondike’s first comic opera singer.((Yukon Archives, Alma Johnston to D.E. Griffith in Coutts 78/69 MSS 087 f.5.)) In the summer of 1897, Gussie Lamore appeared at a restaurant with a gentleman friend and ordered fried eggs. Swift Water Bill was jealous and the story went that he bought all the eggs in Dawson. Lamore later told a //San Francisco Examiner// reporter that Bill bought eleven eggs for $25 and all of them were bad. Gussie left the Yukon in September 1897 claiming that she had eaten enough moose and goose for one year and was 'tired of beans'.(("The girl who danced at Dawson." //Examiner Sunday Magazine,// 27 September 1897 in Barbara Eileen Kelcey, "Lost in the Bush: The Forgotten Women of the Klondike Stampede.” Masters thesis, University of Victoria, 1987: 202-03.)) 

Lamore was back in Dawson in 1898. The community was without a theatre until the Pavilion was built and operated under the management of R. C. Gardner. The doors opened on 13 June 1898 and played to a full house every night.  The first week opened with Nellie Lamore singing, followed by Blanche Lamont and then Fred Breen singing and dancing. Annie Kane sang in an operatic style, Ben Davis did comedy sketches and sang, Jaquillin and Rosaline had clever songs and the bill closed with Frank Raphael and Pat Rooney. The Klondike Nugget called it a first class show.(("A First Class Show: The Pavillion the most popular resort of its kind opened here." //Klondike Nugget// (Dawson), 23 June 1898.))