Mabel Burnege

Mabel Burnege
Died	July 2, 1972
Nationality	English
Other names	Mabel 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.

External links

• A cigarette card featuring Mabel Burnege, from the George Arents Collection, New York Public Library.
• Mabel Burnege at the Internet Broadway Database