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May Naudain
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May Naudain (1917)
Born
Mary Arnaud Naudain

(1880-10-12)October 12, 1880
Burlington, Iowa
DiedFebruary 1923(1923-02-00) (aged 42)
Jacksonville, Florida
NationalityAmerican
Other namesMay Naudain George (after marriage)
Occupation(s)actress and singer
Years active1900–1920
Known formusical theatre and operetta

Mary Arnaud "May" Naudain (October 12, 1880 – February 1923) was an American musical theatre actress and singer.

Early life

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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]

Career

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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]

Personal life

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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]

Notes

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  1. ^ Her date of death is variously given as February 3[2] and February 8.[21]

References

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  1. ^ Mantle, Burns; Chapman, John Arthur; Sherwood, Garrison P.; Kronenberger, Louis (1923). The Best Plays. Dodd, Mead. p. 599.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ a b "Young Actress Weds Rich New Yorker". El Paso Herald. May 19, 1909. p. 5. Retrieved May 2, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "May Naudain, a Winsome Stage Beauty". The Evening Republican. October 8, 1906. p. 3. Retrieved May 2, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Huneker, James (October 1906). "The Drama of the Month". Metropolitan Magazine. 25: 119.
  7. ^ "The Players". Everybody's Magazine. 15: 537. October 1906.
  8. ^ Bordman, Gerald; Norton, Richard (2010). American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle. Oxford University Press. pp. 277, 360. ISBN 9780199729708.
  9. ^ Golden, Eve (2007-11-30). Vernon and Irene Castle's Ragtime Revolution. University Press of Kentucky. p. 254. ISBN 9780813172699.
  10. ^ Thompson, Paul (November 1908). "The Season's Notable Plays". The Burr-McIntosh Monthly. 17: 273.
  11. ^ "Katinka". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
  12. ^ "Katinka at the Forty-Fourth Street Theatre", Opera Magazine (February 1916), p. 31.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ Wickes, E. M. "'Putting Over' Popular Songs", The American Magazine (April 1917), pp. 34–35.
  15. ^ "May Naudain is Shea Headliner". The Buffalo Times. May 26, 1918. p. 42. Retrieved May 2, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ H. F. P. (December 20, 1919). "Gondoliers Finely Given". Musical America. 31: 29.
  17. ^ Briscoe, Johnson (July 1914). "The Cupboard of Happy Recollections". The Green Book Magazine. 12: 177.
  18. ^ "Advertisement". The Buffalo Commercial. May 25, 1918. p. 4. Retrieved May 2, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ Dwight, Frederick (1915). Vicennial Record, Yale University Class of 1894. New Haven: The Tuttle, Morehouse, & Taylor Co. p. 108.
  20. ^ "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.
  21. ^ Mantle, Burns; Chapman, John Arthur; Sherwood, Garrison P.; Kronenberger, Louis (1923). The Best Plays. Dodd, Mead. p. 599.
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