May Naudain Explained
| May Naudain |
| Birth Name: | Mary Arnaud Naudain |
| Birth Date: | 12 October 1880 |
| Birth Place: | Burlington, Iowa |
| Death Place: | Jacksonville, Florida |
| Nationality: | American |
| Other Names: | May Naudain George (after marriage) |
| Occupation: | 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.
Early life
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
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
Naudain married banker Charles Henry "Harry" George in June, 1909.[19] [20] She died from a heart ailment in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1923.
External links
Notes and References
- Book: The Best Plays. Mantle. Burns. Chapman. John Arthur. Sherwood. Garrison P.. Kronenberger. Louis. 1923. Dodd, Mead. 599.
- Book: Benjamin . Ruth . Who Sang What on Broadway, 1866-1996 . November 2005 . McFarland & Co. . Jefferson, N.C. . 978-0-7864-1506-9 . 564 .
- Book: Briscoe, Johnson. 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. 1907. 226.
- News: Young Actress Weds Rich New Yorker. May 19, 1909. El Paso Herald. May 2, 2019. 5. Newspapers.com.
- News: May Naudain, a Winsome Stage Beauty. October 8, 1906. The Evening Republican. May 2, 2019. 3. Newspapers.com.
- Huneker. James. October 1906. The Drama of the Month. Metropolitan Magazine. 25. 119.
- October 1906. The Players. Everybody's Magazine. 15. 537.
- Book: American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle. Bordman. Gerald. Norton. Richard. Oxford University Press. 2010. 9780199729708. 277, 360.
- Book: Golden, Eve. Vernon and Irene Castle's Ragtime Revolution. 2007-11-30. University Press of Kentucky. 9780813172699. 254.
- Thompson. Paul. November 1908. The Season's Notable Plays. The Burr-McIntosh Monthly. 17. 273.
- Web site: Katinka. Library of Congress. 2019-05-02.
- https://books.google.com/books?id=Gue-nMn5gMkC&dq=%22May+Naudain%22&pg=RA1-PA31 "Katinka at the Forty-Fourth Street Theatre"
- Book: The Complete Entertainment Discography, from the Mid-1890s to 1942. registration. May Naudain.. Rust. Brian A. L.. Debus. Allen G.. Arlington House. 1973. 9780870001505. 498.
- Wickes, E. M. "'Putting Over' Popular Songs", The American Magazine (April 1917), pp. 34–35.
- News: May Naudain is Shea Headliner. May 26, 1918. The Buffalo Times. May 2, 2019. 42. 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.
- News: Advertisement. May 25, 1918. The Buffalo Commercial. May 2, 2019. 4. Newspapers.com.
- Book: Dwight . Frederick . Vicennial Record, Yale University Class of 1894 . 1915 . The Tuttle, Morehouse, & Taylor Co. . New Haven . 108 . en.
- News: May Naudain Weds Banker; Comic Opera Singer the Bride of C.H. George of New York. 1909-06-16. The New York Times. 2019-05-02. 0362-4331.
