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.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: The Best Plays. Mantle. Burns. Chapman. John Arthur. Sherwood. Garrison P.. Kronenberger. Louis. 1923. Dodd, Mead. 599.
  2. Book: Benjamin . Ruth . Who Sang What on Broadway, 1866-1996 . November 2005 . McFarland & Co. . Jefferson, N.C. . 978-0-7864-1506-9 . 564 .
  3. 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.
  4. News: Young Actress Weds Rich New Yorker. May 19, 1909. El Paso Herald. May 2, 2019. 5. Newspapers.com.
  5. News: May Naudain, a Winsome Stage Beauty. October 8, 1906. The Evening Republican. May 2, 2019. 3. Newspapers.com.
  6. Huneker. James. October 1906. The Drama of the Month. Metropolitan Magazine. 25. 119.
  7. October 1906. The Players. Everybody's Magazine. 15. 537.
  8. Book: American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle. Bordman. Gerald. Norton. Richard. Oxford University Press. 2010. 9780199729708. 277, 360.
  9. Book: Golden, Eve. Vernon and Irene Castle's Ragtime Revolution. 2007-11-30. University Press of Kentucky. 9780813172699. 254.
  10. Thompson. Paul. November 1908. The Season's Notable Plays. The Burr-McIntosh Monthly. 17. 273.
  11. Web site: Katinka. Library of Congress. 2019-05-02.
  12. https://books.google.com/books?id=Gue-nMn5gMkC&dq=%22May+Naudain%22&pg=RA1-PA31 "Katinka at the Forty-Fourth Street Theatre"
  13. 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.
  14. Wickes, E. M. "'Putting Over' Popular Songs", The American Magazine (April 1917), pp. 34–35.
  15. News: May Naudain is Shea Headliner. May 26, 1918. The Buffalo Times. May 2, 2019. 42. 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. News: Advertisement. May 25, 1918. The Buffalo Commercial. May 2, 2019. 4. Newspapers.com.
  19. Book: Dwight . Frederick . Vicennial Record, Yale University Class of 1894 . 1915 . The Tuttle, Morehouse, & Taylor Co. . New Haven . 108 . en.
  20. 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.