Josephine Hall

Annie Josephine Hall (April 19, 1865 – December 5, 1920) was an American actress and soprano. She began her career performing in musicals and operettas produced by Edward E. Rice from 1883 to 1886, including the 1885 Broadway productions of Polly, or The Pet of the Regiment, and Billee Taylor at the Casino Theatre. She remained active on the stage in both plays and musicals into the early 1900s, often in works produced or created by Charles Frohman, with whom she was under contract for many years. According to her 1920 obituary in The New York Times, she was most famous for her performances of the song "Sister Mary Jane's Top Note" and for her appearances in the Broadway productions of The Girl from Paris (1896) and The Girl from Maxim's (1899).

Hall retired from performance in 1904. She briefly came out of retirement in 1910 to perform in Klaw & Erlanger's production of The Air King. She was the mother of Broadway producer Alexander A. Aarons, who had a longterm collaboration with Vinton Freedley. His father was the Broadway composer and producer Alfred E. Aarons. Hall married Alfred in 1899, nine years after Alex was born. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1911. She died in 1920.