Lois Ewell
Lois Ewell (January 28, 1885 - July 3, 1946), was an American soprano opera singer and Broadway theatre performer.[1][2]
Biography
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She was born on January 28, 1885, in Memphis, Tennessee to James Levi Ewell. She married Henry Ramond Tredwell of Port Washington, New York in 1905 in Brooklyn, New York.[3]
In 1908, she starred in Joe Weber's Burlesque of The Merry Widow at the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York City.[4]
She divorced in Chicago in 1909.[3]
In 1913 she appeared in the Century Opera Company's production of Aida in Manhattan.[4] In 1914 she starred in Tosca with the Century Opera Company.[5]
She died as Lois Henderson in New York City in 1946.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Lois Ewell Sings at Stadium" (PDF). New York Times. August 10, 1920. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
Lois Ewell, leading soprano of the former Century English Opera, sang three songs in French, Alezandre Georges's 'Hymn to the Sun,' Fourdrain's 'Carnival' ...
- ^ Pierre V. R. Key (1914). "Opera For And By The People". The Century Magazine. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
Lois Ewell, the most efficient and popular of the sopranos, comes from Tennessee, although she is known as a Brooklyn girl because of her lengthy residence in the City of Churches. Miss Ewell will have earned more than $12,000 for her ...
- ^ a b Lois Ewell passport application for 1918
- ^ a b "Lois Ewel". IBDB. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
- ^ "English Productions at the Century Opera House". The Opera News. January 31, 1914. p. 1. Retrieved April 11, 2019.
- ^ Death certificate of Lois Henderson. Certificate no. 15094. New York, New York, U.S., Index to Death Certificates, 1862-1948.
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