May de Sousa
May De Sousa (November 6, 1884[1] – August 8, 1948[2]) was an American singer and a Broadway actress.[3]
Biography
De Sousa was the daughter of a Chicago police detective,[1] John De Sousa (born 1856 died 1941), and his wife, Carrie (1861—1910). She had a younger sibling, Marvin De Sousa (1891—1921).[1] [4]
She came to fame in 1898 as the singer of "Dear Midnight of Love", a ballad by Bathhouse John Coughlin.[5]
In 1913, De Sousa declared bankruptcy.[6]
De Sousa retired in 1918, following a theatrical production in Australia, married a local doctor, and eventually moved to Shanghai. In 1943, following two periods as a prisoner of war in internment camps in China,[7] she returned to the United States on the Gripsholm and took a job in Chicago as a scrubwoman in the public-school system.[7] She died in Chicago charity ward, of malnutrition,[7] at age 66.[2]
Marriages
May De Sousa was married twice to:
- Eaton Arthur Haines, a stockbroker, of Nunda, New York.[6][7][8] They married Haverstraw, New York, on 24 April 1910[9] and divorced in 1914, reportedly after De Sousa was beaten by her husband for years.[10] Haines died in 1933.[11]
- Dr. William E. O'Hara (1879—1941), an Australian surgeon.[7] They met in 1918 while De Sousa was in Australia in a theatrical production and married in Melbourne, Australia, in either 1919 or 1920; he died in 1941.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1900 U. S. Federal Census, accessed on ancestry.com on 13 September 2012
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- ↑ John De Sousa; findagrave.com Retrieved March 11, 2015
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- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "May De Sousa A Bankrupt", The New York Times, 28 September 1913
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 "Once Famous Soprano Dies in Charity Ward", Lodi News-Sentinel, 11 August 1948
- ↑ "La Belle Americaine", The Nunda (NY) News, unknown date
- ↑ "May De Sousa Was an April Bride", The New York Times, 8 May 1910
- ↑ "Actress Tells Divorce Court How Husband Beat Her, Sparing Her Face Because That Meant Earning Power", The Milwaukee Journal, 23 December 1914
- ↑ "Annual Summary Local Events 1933", The Nunda (NY) News, 5 January 1934
External links
- May de Sousa at the Internet Broadway DatabaseLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- May Alvos De Sousa; findagrave.com
- May De Sousa; Stagebeauty.net
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