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Modjeska House

AAUW presents speaker: Yvonne Beohm, VP of the Helen Modjeska Foundation

Yvonne Beohm is also the historian and researcher for the Foundation. She will give us an overview of Modjeska's early life in Poland and her American Career. Helena Modjeska became America's most distinguished Shakesperean actress of the 1880's and 1890's. While she was still at the height of her American Career. Modjeska and her husband, Karol Chlapowski established a permanent home in Santiago Canyon, about sixty miles south of Los Angeles.

Come join us at the Murray Center to enjoy the presentation.

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