Lona Barrison
(1871-1939), ActressAbelone Maria ('Lona') Barrison
Sitter in 1 portrait
by Unknown photographer
postcard print, circa 1905
NPG x232
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ted robbens
04 February 2020, 18:40
She was from Copenhagen and moved to USA in about 1882 (dates vary) and became one of the Barrison sisters vaudeville act . She married William (Wilhelm Ludwig) Fléron who was the manager of the act. At the time their antics on and off stage were considered risque or even pornographic, and Lona was described as "notoriously frolicsome". She sometimes featured an Arabian horse in her act and entered it in a horse show at Madison Square. The event was a high school competition but her entry was refused because she insisted in riding the horse with a man's saddle. Much of the publicity the sisters received was engineered by their manager.