Sadie Martinot
Sadie Martinot | |
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Born | Sarah Frances Marie Martinot August 19, 1861 New York City, New York, U.S. |
Died | May 7, 1923 Ogdensburg, New York, U.S. | (aged 61)
Occupation(s) | Actress and singer |
Spouses | Fred Stinson
(m. 1879; died 1895)Louis F. Nethersole (m. 1901) |
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Sarah Frances Marie Martinot (August 19, 1861 – May 7, 1923) was an American actress and
Early life
She was born Sarah Frances Marie Martinot in New York City on December 19, 1861, the daughter of William Alexander and Mary Lydia (née Randall) Martinot. Her father was the son of John P. Martinot, a French immigrant who founded a successful wholesale firm dealing in imported silk products. William Martinot worked for his father's firm and had served in the
Career
In 1876 Martinot joined Manhattan's
Martinot made her London debut on
By 1883 Martinot was back in New York with Boucicault for the inaugural season of his new Star Theatre (formerly Wallack's Theatre). Their first production premiered on March 26 with Boucicault's Vice Versa with Martinot in the role of Mrs. Clingstone Peach. Later one critic would declare the piece a failure and Martinot a success. On April 12 the season continued with Martinot playing Moya in The Shaughraun; Dora on April 19 in The Omadhaun; and that May as Eily O'Connor in The Colleen Bawn.[5]
At the
Illness
In December 1885 Martinot sailed for an engagement in
Later career
Martinot returned to New York to star in the much anticipated comic opera Nadjy, but after a disagreement with the Casino Theatre stage manager, she withdrew from the production before the piece debuted. Her first performance after returning from Europe was played in German at Amberg's German Theatre early in 1889 as Bettina in Das Maskottchen (The Mascot). At the Garden Theatre on September 27 of the following year she played Mrs. Horton in Hamilton Aide's Dr. Bill[17] and at the same venue that October 6, Lois in Jerome K. Jerome's Sunset. Over the following two seasons Martinot starred in a national tour performing the title role in the Charles Frederic Nirdlinger play Pompadour and Dora in Victorien Sardou's Diplomacy. Martinot would remain active in theatre, in New York or elsewhere, well into the first decade of the new century in roles such as:[18]
Suzette in The Voyage of Suzette (1893)[19]
Mrs. Darcey in The Passport (1894)[20]
Lady Angela in Patience (1896)
Hattie in A Stranger in New York (1897)[21]
Leonie in The Turtle (1898)[22]
Lady Carnby in The Marriage Game (1901)[23]
Paula in
Mary Erwin in Mary and John (1905)[24]
Mrs. Temple in Mrs. Temple's Telegram (1906)[25]
Lady Dover in Toddles (1908)[26]
Personal life
Martinot married twice, first to Fred Stinson (d. 1895),
Decline
On January 5, 1916, Martinot jumped unclad from a second story window of an apartment building on
References
- ^ New York in the war of the rebellion, 1861 to 1865, Volume 5, 1912, p. 3847 accessed 6.16.13
- ^ Capt. Burden's Trial. New York Times August 3, 1875; p. 8
- ^ a b White, James Terry, The National Cyclopedia of American Biography,1904, p. 556 accessed 6.15.13
- ^ a b Grau, Robert, Forty Years Observation of Music and the Drama, pp. 156, 221-222 accessed 6.14.13
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Opera Glass, May, 1896, pp. 67-78 accessed 6.14.13
- ^ Gossip of this Town. Elmira (New York) Telegram, March 4, 1894, col. 6 accessed 6.15.13
- ^ Bernard, F. C. Ixion; or, the Man at the Wheel accessed 6.7.13
- ^ Chow Chow: or, A Tale of Pekin, Internet Broadway Database accessed 6.14.13
- ^ Note: a well-known French prima donna
- ^ Daniel H. Morrison, The Treasury of Song for the Home Circle, 1892, p. 418 accessed 6.14.13
- ^ Music and the Drama. Boston Daily Advertiser (Boston, Massachusetts), December 24, 1877; Issue 150; col. D
- ^ Note: though without their permission
- ^ by Hervé (composer), with book by Georges Jacobi and Alfred Maltby Mefistofele II: Grand Spectacular Comic Opera in Three Acts accessed 6.9.13
- ^ Paul Lacôme(composer) with book by Charles Clairville and Alfred Delacour
- ^ based on the Dion Boucicault and Joseph Jefferson theatrical adaptation of the Washington Irving story
- ^ by Friedrich Zell and Richard Genée Brainard's Musical World, Issues 262-335, 1885, p.389 accessed 6.14.13
- ^ adapted from Le Docteur Jo-Jo by Albert Carrt
- ^ Who's Who in the Theatre, 1916, p. 417 accessed 6.16.13
- ^ Note: from Le voyage de Suzette by Léon Vasseur
- ^ Note: by B. C. Stephenson and William Yardley - based on the novel My Official Wife by Richard Henry Savage - Sadie Martinot's Tour Begins. The New York Times October 16, 1894, p. 5
- Charles Hale Hoyt
- ^ Note: adapted by Joseph W. Herbert, from La Tortue, by Léon Gaudillot - Brown, Thomas Allson - A History of the New York Stage, 1903, p. 269 accessed 6.16.13
- ^ Note: adapted by Clyde Fitch from Mariage d'Olympe by Émile Augier
- ^ Note: by Edith Ellis Baker
- ^ Note: Mrs. Temple's Telegram by Frank Gunning Wyatt, William Morris accessed 6.16.13
- ^ Note: by Clyde Fitch adapted from a French farce Bell, Archie - The Clyde Fitch I Knew, 1909, p. 119 accessed 6.16.13
- ^ Sadie Martinot in Court Again. The New York Times, March 25, 1896, p. 10,
- ^ a b Sadie Martinot Dies Insane at 61.The New York Times, May 8, 1923, p. 7
- ^ The New York Clipper Annual' 1880, p. 16 accessed 6.16.13
- ^ Miss Martinot in Hospital. The New York Times, January 6, 1916, p. 11