Audrey Maple
Audrey Maple | |
|---|---|
 Maple c.1917 | |
| Born | Elsie H. Schroeder 1899 Trenton, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | April 18, 1971 (aged 71–72) New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1908–1940 |
| Spouse |
Ernest A. Zadig (m. 1940) |
Audrey Maple (born Elsie H. Schroeder; 1899 – April 18, 1971) was an American actress, singer, and vaudeville performer.
Early life
Audrey Maple was born Elsie H. Schroeder in Trenton, New Jersey. Her father was a musician.[1]
Career
Audrey Maple performed in vaudeville in a novelty act called Pianophiends.[2] In the operetta The Love Waltz (1908-1909), she was half of a highly publicized "eight-minute kiss" during a dance scene.[3][4]
She appeared in Broadway productions, mostly musical comedies, including The Arcadians (1910), The Firefly (1912-1913), Molly O (1916),[5] Katinka (1916),[6] Good Night, Paul (1917),[7] Her Regiment by Victor Herbert (1917),[8][9] Monte Cristo Jr. (1919), Tangerine (1921-1922), Princess April (1924), Naughty Riquette (1926), My Princess (1927), Sunny Days (1928), Angela (1928-1929), and The Street Singer (1929-1930).[10]
Maple appeared in two films, The Plumbers are Coming (1929) and Enlighten Thy Daughter (1934).
Personal life
Maple's personal life involved enough gossip, scandal, and legal entanglements to prompt commentary in newspapers: "What again! It's perfectly terrible the way wives pick on poor little Audrey Maple, the pretty musical comedy star, and try to make out that she is a naughty girl."[11][12][13] In 1928 she survived a car accident in Chicago that killed one of her co-stars, dancer Rosalie Claire.[14]
In 1940, Audrey Maple married engineer and inventor Ernest A. Zadig,[15] and retired from the stage. She died in New York in 1971, aged 72 years.[16]
References
- ^ "Audrey Maple's Career" Evening Public Ledger (October 7, 1922): 11. via Newspapers.com
- ^ "Stageland" The Scrap Book (September 1907): 457.
- ^ "Theatrical Chatter" Buffalo Enquirer (May 11, 1908): 2. via Newspapers.com
- ^ "At Poli's: 'The Love Waltz' With Its Eight-Minute Kiss" Hartford Courant (January 30, 1909): 11. via Newspapers.com
- ^ "Cort: Molly O'" Theatre Magazine (July 1916): 11.
- ^ "'Katinka' Opens at Schubert" Boston Post (August 29, 1916): 7. via Newspapers.com
- ^ "Hudson: Good Night, Paul" Theatre Magazine (October 1917): 207.
- ^ "The Theatres Before the Holidays" The Sun (December 9, 1917): 4. via Chronicling America
- ^ "Bewitching Music in 'Her Regiment'" New York Times (November 13, 1917): 11. via Newspapers.com
- ^ Thomas S. Hischak, Broadway Plays and Musicals (McFarland 2012): 19, 143, 307, 318. ISBN 9780786453092
- ^ "Come Audrey, the Witness Chair is Waiting Again!" Pittsburgh Press (April 26, 1925): 115. via Newspapers.com
- ^ "Romance Loses Steiner his Heritage and Wife's Love" Daily News (May 27, 1925): 3. via Newspapers.com
- ^ "Help! Those Stars Stole Our Husbands!" Tampa Tribune (October 25, 1925): 47. via Newspapers.com
- ^ "Audrey Maple Escapes Fate of Companion" Daily News (June 18, 1928): 2. via Newspapers.com
- ^ Bob Thomas, "Genius? No, Just Practical Inventor" Florida Today (September 26, 1973): 1D. via Newspapers.com
- ^ "Audrey Maple Dies; Actress of '20s, 72" New York Times (April 19, 1971): 40.
External links
- Audrey Maple at IMDb
- Audrey Maple at the Internet Broadway Database
- A photograph of Audrey Maple in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection Photograph File, New York Public Library Digital Collections.