Katherine Rugani

A frequent stage performer and musician in the Milwaukee-Chicago area, and fluent in Italian, her last stage appearance was in 1963 as Mary in an Italian-language version of the Passion Play in her adopted city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, where she arrived in 1917. In 1923 she was a runner-up in the Miss Kenosha contest. Throughout the 1930s she appeared on stage with her husband Silvio in musical ensembles (as a pianist and accordionist) and in several stock productions including "Moon Over Mulberry Street".