Eileen Huban Explained

Eileen Huban
Birth Date:	1896 or 1897
Birth Place:	Gort, Loughrea, Ireland
Death Date:	October 22, 1935 (aged 38)
Death Place:	New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation:	Actress

Eileen Huban (1896 or 1897 – October 22, 1935) was an American actress, active in New York City in the 1910s and 1920s.

Early life and education

Huban was born in Gort, Loughrea, Ireland.^[1] She was the youngest of nine children of Michael Huban and Winifred Mullins Huban. She attended a convent school,^[2] and moved to the United States to be with her widowed mother and sisters by 1913.^[3]

Career

Huban's first public performance was as a singer in the 1913 Irish Historic Pageant at the Lexington Avenue Armory in New York City.^[4] Her New York stage credits included roles in the shows Lonesome-like (1915),^[5] The Grasshopper (1917),^[6] Old Friends (1917),^[7] On With the Dance (1917),^[8] Cheating Cheaters (1918), Crops and Croppers (1918),^[9] Dark Rosaleen (1919),^[10] Paddy the Next Best Thing (1920),^[11] Hindle Wakes (1922), King Henry IV, Part I (1926), Window Panes (1927),^[12] Mixed Marriage (1930),^[13] and Troilus and Cressida (1932). She was also seen in the silent film Find the Woman (1922).

"She is lovely to behold, a person naturally eloquent and dramatic," wrote a New York Times reviewer in 1917. "She plays with a grateful simplicity and directness, and she has a certain eeriness that is fascinating." "Her voice is a fine mezzo-soprano with unusual range and power," noted the Baltimore Sun in 1919, while also remarking on her "large dark-blue eyes" and "dark brown curls".

Huban served several three-year terms on the board of directors of the Actors' Fidelity League.^[14]

Personal life

Huban died in 1935, after six months of illness, at the age of 38, in New York City.^[15]

Her grand-niece is the actress Susan Sullivan. ^[16]

Notes and References

1. News: 1919-10-26 . Eileen Huban Who Plays Leading Role in Irish Comedy, is Real Irish Lassie . 34 . The Baltimore Sun . 2023-08-23 . Newspapers.com.
2. News: 1919-06-29 . Eileen Huban Leaves Convent for Stage; Had Never Been Inside a Theater Until Four Years Ago . 51 . Star Tribune . 2023-08-23 . Newspapers.com.
3. News: 1919-05-04 . The Story of Eileen Huban . en . The New York Times . 2023-08-23.
4. Web site: Burns . Catherine M. . 2016-04-26 . For an Irish National Theater in New York . 2023-08-23 . The Gotham Center for New York City History . en-US.
5. July 1915 . For an Irish Theatre in America . The Theatre . 22 . 173 . 14.
6. https://books.google.com/books?id=XUUB3v_qSIMC&dq=Eileen+Huban&pg=PA23 "In the Spotlight: Eileen Huban"
7. White Studio, "An Evening with J. M. Barrie" (1917 photograph), in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York.
8. December 1917 . Scene in Michael Morton's Drama 'On With the Dance' at the Republic . Theatre Magazine . 26 . 202 . 341.
9. News: 1920-08-29 . Miss Huban's Rapid Rise . 41 . New York Herald . 2023-08-23 . Newspapers.com.
10. Abbe, James Edward, "Eileen Huban as Moya McKillop in 'Dark Rosaleen'" (1919 photograph), in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York.
11. Mantle . Burns . November 1920 . Feminists in the Drama . The Green Book Magazine . 24 . 5 . 71.
12. News: 1927-02-12 . Plays & Players . 18 . Brooklyn Life and Activities of Long Island Society . 2023-08-23 . Newspapers.com.
13. News: 1930-04-15 . 'Mixed Marriage', By St. John Ervine, At the Boulevard . 10 . Times Union . 2023-08-23 . Newspapers.com.
14. News: May 30, 1928 . Actors' Fidelity Elects; Holbrook Blinn, President, and Howard Kyle, Secretary . en . The New York Times . 2023-08-23.
15. News: 1935-10-24 . Eileen Huban Dies; Noted as Actress; Her Performance in 1917 Play, 'The Grasshopper,' Won Cheers of Audience . en . The New York Times . 2023-08-23.
16. News: 1972-04-23 . Susan's Sure of Self . en . The Pittsburgh Press . 2023-09-27.