Jennie McNulty

Jennie McNulty, 1890

Jennie McNulty or Jenny McNulty (1866 in Boston, Massachusetts[1] – 1927 in London[2]) was an American-born British actress. Beginning her career as a Gaiety Girl, she went on to act in featured roles on the London stage in musical theatre around the close of the 19th century, including comic operas and operettas, Victorian burlesques, farces and Edwardian musical comedies.

Career

McNulty in Ma Mie Rosette

McNulty began her career as a Gaiety Girl, where she was later remembered as "among the prettiest and most popular of the girls at the Gaiety."[3] Her West End roles included Lady Pattie in Adonis (1886),[4] Lady Betty in the comic opera Dorothy (1886),[5] a small role in the Victorian burlesque Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim (1887),[6] Siebel in another burlesque, Faust up to date (1888–1889),[7] Letty Lansdell in First Mate (1888–1889),[8][7] Una Foxwood in The Gold Mine; or, the Miller of Grenoble (1890),[9][10] and Polly in The Bookmaker by J. W. Pigott (1890). Cecil Howard wrote in The Theatre that her performance as Polly was "as good ... as one could wish ... her bravado, her insolent vulgarity, were only equalled by the little exquisite touch of pathos towards the close".[11] She played Mrs. Huntley in Sweet Nancy (1890)[12] and Corisande in Ivan Caryll's version of Ma Mie Rosette (1892).[13][14]

In 1893–1894, she played the phony "Comtesse De La Blague" in Morocco Bound,[15] in which role she was called "bright and engaging".[16] In 1894 she married William Victor Paulet.[17] In 1895, she was elected as head of the Choristers' Association in London.[18] In 1898, she appeared in A Greek Slave.[17] and the following year she received good notices as Martha in My "Soldier" Boy.[19][20] In 1903, she played Lady Flareup in the farce Dumb-bell Daisy.[21] After this, she continued to perform in London and on tour with other George Edwardes companies.[22]

She died in London in 1927, aged 60.

References

  1. ↑ "Jennie McNulty", 1891 England Census, Ancestry.com (pay to view)
  2. ↑ "Jennie M Paulet", England & Wales, Death Index, 1916–2007, Ancestry.com (pay to view)
  3. ↑ "Great Queen Street Theatre", Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, Vol. 60, p. 178 (1903), George S. Maddick
  4. ↑ Brereton, p. 127
  5. ↑ Brereton, p. 130
  6. ↑ Adams, p. 547
  7. 1 2 The Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1889), pp. 157, 312, accessed 14 August 2015
  8. ↑ Scott, p. 104
  9. ↑ Scott, p. 129
  10. ↑ Adams, p. 591
  11. ↑ Capes and Eglington, p. 139; and The Freemason, Vol. XXIV, 9 August 1890, p. 80, accessed 14 August 2015;
  12. ↑ Capes and Eglington, p. 258; and The Times, 18 October 1890, p. 8
  13. ↑ Artist and Journal of Home Culture, Vol. 13, Wm. Reeves (1892), p. 379
  14. ↑ "The Theatres", The Times, 27 December 1892, p. 6; and "Ma Mie Rosette, at the Globe Theatre", Illustrated London News, 26 November 1892, p. 669
  15. ↑ "Theatres", The Observer, 14 May 1893, p. 4; The Academy – a weekly review of literature, science and art, January–June 1894, Vol. XLV, No. 1131, 6 January 1894, p. 2, accessed 14 August 2015; and The Saint Paul Daily Globe, 4 May 1896, p. 9c
  16. ↑ Artist and Journal of Home Culture, Vol. 14 (1893), p. 381, Wm. Reeves, accessed 31 August 2015
  17. 1 2 The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality, Vol. 24, Ingram brothers (1899), p. 216
  18. ↑ Davis, p. 66
  19. ↑ Truth: A Weekly Journal, Vol. 45 (1899), p. 85; and "Criterion Theatre", The Times, 4 January 1899, p. 4
  20. ↑ "A Laugh at the 'Cri'", Punch, Vol. 116 (1899), p. 69, F. C. Burnand et al. (eds.)
  21. ↑ Wearing, J.P., The London Stage 1900–1909 (2nd ed. Rev.), Plymouth, U.K.: Rowman & Littlefield (2013), pp. 156–157 ISBN 9780810892941
  22. ↑ "Prince's Theatre", The Manchester Guardian, 26 April 1905, classified advertisements, p. 1

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