Evie Greene

Edith Elizabeth ("Evie") Greene (1875 – 11 September 1917)cite web | url = http://www.dgillan.screaming.net/stage/th-frames.html?http&&&www.dgillan.screaming.net/stage/greene/greene-e.html | title = Evie Greene (1878-1917)| work = Stage Beauty | accessdate = 24 May | accessyear = 2007 ] was a highly photographed English actress and vocalist who played in Edwardian musical comedies in London and on Broadway. She is most notable for starring as Dolores, the central character in the international hit musical "Florodora", also singing on the world's first original cast album, recorded for this musical. [ [http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/1557.html Information about "Florodora"] ]

Life and career

Greene was born at 82 Fratton Road in Portsmouth, England, in 1874 or 75 (the 1881 census shows her aged 6). She was the daughter of Richard Bentley Greene, a retired naval officer, and his wife Edith. The 1891 census shows her as a sixteen-year-old "teacher of music".

. [ [http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/stage2/produce/lcher/th-lcher.html Information from Stagebeauty.net] ]

Greene sang the role of the Plaintiff in a 1902 benefit performance of "Trial by Jury", with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company stars and also Hayden Coffin, at which Lionel Monckton played the mute role of the Associate. [ [http://www.c20th.com/GSarchive.htm Lists several people who performed in that performance of "Trial"] ] She also starred in operettas such as "The Duchess of Dantzic" at the Lyric Theatre in London in 1904 and at Daly's Theatre in New York in 1905, [cite web | url = http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=6015| title = The Duchess of Dantzic | work = Internet Broadway Database ] "Les Merveilleuses" in 1906 at Daly's Theatre in London, and "L'Amour Mouillé" at the Lyric Theatre. ["The English Illustrated Magazine", Vol. 25, no. 216 (Sept. 1901).] She also starred in the successful "Havana" in 1908 at the Gaiety Theatre, London. [ [http://library.kent.ac.uk/library/special/icons/playbills/playdat1.htm Information from the Play Pictorial website] ]

Greene appeared in 1915 in a revival of "Florodora", earning good notices, [ [http://www.gabrielleray.150m.com/ArchivePressText2003/20031227.html From Footnote Lights website] ] and performed through 1916, at least as late as 22 November of that year, at the London Palladium. [ [http://www.gabrielleray.150m.com/ArchivePressText2003/20030222.html From Footnote Lights website] ]

She was married twice: first in 1896 to Richard Temple, Jr., the son of the D'Oyly Carte principal bass, Richard Temple ["The English Illustrated Magazine", Vol. 25, no. 216 (Sept. 1901), p. 560 [http://books.google.com/books?id=HeMvAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA560&lpg=PA560&dq=%22evie+greene%22+%22d+oyly+carte%22&source=web&ots=bVGHyWLl5B&sig=vGJKHYz0SyppDXtpH9KzLBl_cgg available here] ] (divorced - abandonment), and then in 1910 to Captain Ernest Kennaway Arbuthnot. Her nephew was the actor Richard Greene, best known for playing Robin Hood in the 1950s British TV series "The Adventures of Robin Hood".

Greene died at the age of 42 at her parent's home, Parnholt, Southsea, Hampshire, England. Her husband became Chief Constable of Oxfordshire in 1921, remarried and had children.

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External links

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* [http://www.operagloves.com/Classicstars/EvieGreene/eviegreene.html Glove Gallery of Evie Greene]
* [http://www.users.waitrose.com/~victorian/post/apost12.jpg1904 tinted portrait of Greene]
* [http://autographs.williamrevels.com/about27.html Photo of Greene]