HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ANGNA ENTERS
(April 18, 1907 - February 25, 1989)

A dancer, mime, painter, writer, novelist and playwright, Anita "Angna" Enters came to New York to study at the Art Students League in 1919. She also studied dance with Michio Ito eventually performing as his partner in 1923.

In 1924 she changed her name to Angna and borrowed $25 with which to present her solo program at the Greenwich Village Theater.  For over 15 years she toured the United States and Europe with her solo program, "The Theatre of Angna Enters".  Many of her sketches and paintings were exhibited in the U.S. and abroad. Some of her sketches were often costume designs for characters in her mime performances or set designs for plays.  In addition to writing three volumes of autobiography she wrote a novel and a book on her work, On Mime (1966). Her plays Love Possessed Juana: A Play of the Inquisition in Spain, co-written with her husband Louis Kalonyme and The Unknown Lover were presented by the Houston Little Theater in 1946 and 1947.    She is also credited with having co-written two Hollywood films-Lost Angel in 1943 and Tenth Avenue Angel, starring Margaret O'Brien in 1948.