Yukon who is who

Margie Newman

Margie Newman was a popular child performer in Dawson City. She and her mother arrived in 1898 and she became known as the “Princess of the Klondike.” ¹⁾ The Newman children were all stage performers at Charles Kimball’s Pavilion Saloon on King Street, but Margie was the headliner.²⁾ She sang sweet sentimental songs that gave a ‘whiff of the old home atmosphere.’ Margie was frequently bombarded with coins, nuggets, and boxes of candy and it made the audience laugh when the girl dropped her stage dignity and picked up the coins thrown on stage. She was rich when she left Dawson.³⁾