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[edit]
Audrey Maple was born Elsie H. Schroeder in Trenton, New Jersey. Her father was a musician.[1]
Career[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ "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[edit]
- 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.