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American actress
May Naudain
May Naudain (1917)
Born Mary Arnaud Naudain
(1880-10-12 ) October 12, 1880Died February 1923(1923-02-00) (aged 42) Nationality American Other names May Naudain George (after marriage) Occupation(s) actress and singer Years active 1900–1920 Known for musical theatre and operetta
Mary Arnaud "May " Naudain (October 12, 1880 – February 1923) was an American musical theatre actress and singer.
Naudain was born in 1880 (although some sources give it as 1872)
[1] in
Burlington, Iowa ,
[2] and raised in
Omaha , Nebraska,
[3] the daughter of Thomas Nelson Naudain and Mary M. Calloway. Her father was a banker.
[4]
Naudain appeared on Broadway in
Babes in Toyland (1903–1904), It Happened in Nordland (1904–1905), Victor Herbert's Concert (1905),
[5]
His Majesty (1906), The Little Cherub (1906–1907),
[6]
[7]
The Girl Behind the Counter (1907–1908),
[8]
[9]
The Girls of Gottenberg (1908),
[10] and
Katinka (1915–1916).
[11]
[12] She made a recording, in 1916, of the hit song "Rackety-Coo" from Katinka .
[13] In 1917 she sang on the
vaudeville circuit with
Anatole Friedland .
[14] She toured o\in vaudeville in 1918.
[15] In 1919 she sang on Broadway with The Society of American Singers in a production of
The Gondoliers .
[16]
One writer commented on Naudain's "genuine wholesomeness and refreshing unstaginess".
[17] During World War I she gave benefit concerts and raised money for war bonds.
[18]
Naudain married banker Charles Henry "Harry" George in June, 1909.
[19]
[20]
[4] She died from a heart ailment in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1923.
[13]
[a]
^ Her date of death is variously given as February 3
[2] and February 8.
[21]
^ Mantle, Burns; Chapman, John Arthur; Sherwood, Garrison P.; Kronenberger, Louis (1923).
The Best Plays . Dodd, Mead. p. 599.
^
a
b Benjamin, Ruth (November 2005).
Who Sang What on Broadway, 1866-1996 . Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co. p. 564.
ISBN
978-0-7864-1506-9 .
^ Briscoe, Johnson (1907).
The Actors' Birthday Book: First -third Series. An Authoritative Insight Into the Lives of the Men and Women of the Stage Born Between January First and December Thirty-first . Moffat, Yard. p. 226.
^
a
b
"Young Actress Weds Rich New Yorker" . El Paso Herald . May 19, 1909. p. 5. Retrieved May 2, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
^
"May Naudain, a Winsome Stage Beauty" . The Evening Republican . October 8, 1906. p. 3. Retrieved May 2, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Huneker, James (October 1906).
"The Drama of the Month" . Metropolitan Magazine . 25 : 119.
^
"The Players" . Everybody's Magazine . 15 : 537. October 1906.
^ Bordman, Gerald; Norton, Richard (2010).
American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle . Oxford University Press. pp. 277, 360.
ISBN
9780199729708 .
^ Golden, Eve (2007-11-30).
Vernon and Irene Castle's Ragtime Revolution . University Press of Kentucky. p. 254.
ISBN
9780813172699 .
^ Thompson, Paul (November 1908).
"The Season's Notable Plays" . The Burr-McIntosh Monthly . 17 : 273.
^
"Katinka" . Library of Congress . Retrieved 2019-05-02 .
^
"Katinka at the Forty-Fourth Street Theatre" , Opera Magazine (February 1916), p. 31.
^
a
b Rust, Brian A. L.; Debus, Allen G. (1973).
The Complete Entertainment Discography, from the Mid-1890s to 1942 . Arlington House. p.
498 .
ISBN
9780870001505 . May Naudain.
^ Wickes, E. M.
"'Putting Over' Popular Songs" , The American Magazine (April 1917), pp. 34–35.
^
"May Naudain is Shea Headliner" . The Buffalo Times . May 26, 1918. p. 42. Retrieved May 2, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
^ H. F. P. (December 20, 1919).
"Gondoliers Finely Given" . Musical America . 31 : 29.
^ Briscoe, Johnson (July 1914).
"The Cupboard of Happy Recollections" . The Green Book Magazine . 12 : 177.
^
"Advertisement" . The Buffalo Commercial . May 25, 1918. p. 4. Retrieved May 2, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Dwight, Frederick (1915).
Vicennial Record, Yale University Class of 1894 . New Haven: The Tuttle, Morehouse, & Taylor Co. p. 108.
^
"May Naudain Weds Banker; Comic Opera Singer the Bride of C.H. George of New York" . The New York Times . 1909-06-16.
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved 2019-05-02 .
^ Mantle, Burns; Chapman, John Arthur; Sherwood, Garrison P.; Kronenberger, Louis (1923).
The Best Plays . Dodd, Mead. p. 599.