Mabel Burnege
DiedJuly 2, 1972
NationalityEnglish
Other namesMabel Burnage, Mabel Burnedge
Occupation(s)actress, singer in musical comedies

Mabel Burnege (born about 1880 – died July 2, 1972) was an English actress in musical comedies and operettas.

Early life

Burnege graduated from the Royal College of Music in London.[1]

Career

Mabel Burnege toured with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, performing in Gilbert and Sullivan productions, from 1903 to 1907, including a tour in South Africa.[2] She appeared on the London stage,[3] including roles in Bob (1903),[4] The Mountaineers (1909), Fallen Fairies (1909),[5] The Islander (1910),[6][7] The Chocolate Soldier (1910-1911),[8] Nightbirds (1912), The Laughing Husband (1913),[9] and Within the Law (1913-1914).[10][11]

Burnege had one Broadway credit, in The Merry Countess (1912),[12][13] with an English company.[14][15] She also toured North America with this show, for about a year. She was considered "an English beauty" and "very clever" by one 1913 reviewer.[16] She was also described as the "special chum" of the star of that show, Jose Collins.[17]

Personal life

Mabel Burnege died in 1972, aged about 90 years.

References

  1. ↑ "Plays and Players". The Journal Times. October 5, 1912. p. 4. Retrieved May 20, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ↑ "About the Players: Miss Mabel Burnege". The Playgoer and Society Illustrated: 80. 1910 – via Internet Archive.
  3. ↑ Stone, David. "Mabel Burnege". gsarchive.net. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
  4. ↑ Wearing, J. P. (2013-12-05). The London Stage 1900-1909: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Scarecrow Press. pp. 146, 500. ISBN 9780810892941.
  5. ↑ Harcourt, Cecil (September 1911). "The Passing of W. S. Gilbert". The Green Book Magazine. 6: 594.
  6. ↑ Hazell's Annual. Hazell, Watson and Viney. 1911. pp. 509–510. Mabel Burnege.
  7. ↑ Morton, Edward (1910). "The Islander at the Apollo Theatre". The Playgoer and Society Illustrated: 68.
  8. ↑ Straus, Oscar; Jacobson, Leopold; Bernauer, Rudolf; Stangé, Stanislaus (1909). The chocolate soldier : an opera bouffe in three acts. Harold B. Lee Library. New York: M. Witmark.
  9. ↑ Kennedy, Matthew (2004). Edmund Goulding's Dark Victory: Hollywood's Genius Bad Boy. Terrace Books. p. 13. ISBN 9780299197704.
  10. ↑ Wearing, J. P. (2013-12-19). The London Stage 1910-1919: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810893009.
  11. ↑ "Drama of the Month: Within the Law". The Playgoer and Society Illustrated: 79–80. 1913 – via Internet Archive.
  12. ↑ Thorold, W. J.; Hornblow Jr, Arthur; Maxwell, Perriton; Beach, Stewart (October 1912). "The New Plays". Theatre Magazine. 16: 99.
  13. ↑ Hanaford, Harry Prescott; Hines, Dixie (1914). Who's who in Music and Drama: An Encyclopedia of Biography of Notable Men and Women in Music and the Drama. H.P. Hanaford. p. 442.
  14. ↑ "New York Audiences Through English Eyes". The New York Times. September 1, 1912. p. 63. Retrieved May 20, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ↑ "Mabel Burnege Seeks Lost Purse". The New York Times. October 26, 1912. p. 11. Retrieved May 20, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ↑ "The Merry Countess is Great Musical Comedy". The Morning Post. March 13, 1913. p. 13. Retrieved May 20, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ↑ "Fur-Clad Beauties". The Boston Globe. January 6, 1913. p. 3. Retrieved May 20, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
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