Mabel Green
Mabel Green | |
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| File:Mabel Green, May 1905.jpg Mabel Green pictured in May 1905 | |
| Born | Mabel Gladys Coomber 1 November 1887 Notting Hill, London |
| Died | 29 November 1975 (aged 88) |
Mabel Green (1 November 1887 – 29 November 1975), born Mabel Gladys Coomber, was a British actress.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Mabel Gladys Coomber was born in Notting Hill, London, the daughter of Alfred Coomber and Matilda (Maud) Tanner Coomber.
Career
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Mabel Green first came to attention in the English adaptation of André Messager's The Little Michus (1905), with Adrienne Augarde;[1] the reviewer in The Observer found Green and Augarde's performances "refreshing," "singing and acting as they did with a girlish abandon and an absence of effort."[2] Later stage appearances came for Green in The Dairymaids (1907), The Florentine Tragedy (1909), The Balkan Princess (1910),[3] and in pantomimes Cinderella (1920–1921), Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1921–1922),[4] and The Co-optimists (1924).[5] She was popular as a subject of postcard photographs and other memorabilia.[6][7]
In 1911 Green sang at the Tivoli music hall.[8] Her performances there were not so well-received as her other work, with the Guardian reviewer commenting that "Mabel Green has a nice, sweet voice, a pretty smile, and some other qualities, but you cannot feel that there is any meaning in the gentle sentiments she sings about."[9]
Green was an early motoring enthusiast, posing for photographs with her REO Landaulette in 1907.[10][11]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Mabel Green married three times. Her first husband was Tom Stanley Steel; they married in South Africa in 1912. They divorced in 1917. Her second husband was Prussian-born Julius Sigismund Wetzlar, deputy chairman of the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa. He died in 1938.[12] Her third husband was Zante Gower Burmester; they married in 1940. He died in 1971. She died in 1975, aged 88 years.[13]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- The National Portrait Gallery holds 22 portraits of Mabel Green, most of them publicity photographs by Bassano
- "Mabel Green advertises Odol mouthwash, London, 1912" Footlight Notes (December 19, 2014), a blog post about Green
- A 1905 photograph of Green at Getty Images
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