Mignonette Kokin
Mignonette Kokin (born Margaret A Cutting; August 5, 1880 – May 16, 1957) was an American dancer, singer, and comedic actress in vaudeville. Early life Margaret A. "Mignonette" Cutting was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Ella (or Ellen) L. Moseley Kokin and Charles W. Cutting. Her mother was an actress on the vaudeville stage; her stepfather, Prince Kokin, was a juggler from Tokyo. She recalled a childhood spent in London and Paris. Career Mignonette Kokin danced and did comedic impersonations on the vaudeville circuit in the United States, danced in Paris, and toured Great Britain and Ireland. She was described in 1903 as "a chic little dancer" and "a buxom little beauty whose refinement and gorgeous gowns almost hypnotize the fair sex." Kokin often worked alongside the monkey act run by her husband, Charles F. Galetti. In 1907, she detailed her encounter with a simian costar in a New York theatre in 1907, a story published with exaggerated illustrations, under the headline "Hugged by a Big Baboon": "All of the nightmares in the world rolled into one," Kokin wrote, "cannot compare with those awful moments I passed in the arms of this repulsive brute, strong enough and ferocious