Louise Paullin

Louise Paullin (1848 – April 18, 1910), sometimes seen as Louisa Paullin, was an American stage actress.

Louise Paullin
A cigarette card featuring Louise Paullin, circa 1888, from the Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Born1848
Died1910
New York
NationalityAmerican
Other namesLouisa Paullin, Louise Paullin Warner (after second marriage)
Occupationactress
Years active1880-1900

Early life

Louisa Paullin was born in 1848, and raised into a theatre family in California. She began performing on stage from childhood.[1][2] Her parents were actors, Susan F. Paullin and James R. Paullin.[3][4] She made national headlines in 1859, at age 11, when she ran away with, or was abducted by, a man in his twenties named Servey.[5][6][7]

Career
Card 645, Louise Paullin, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes MET DP829848

By 1862, at age 14, Paullin was a member of the Bray and Carl's Variety Troupe, based in California.[8] Paullin was in the cast of The Royal Middy in San Francisco in 1880.[9] She appeared on Broadway in The Queen's Lace Handkerchief (1882-1883). She was also seen in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Sorcerer in 1883,[10] and in Fantine and Zanita in Boston in 1884.[11][12] She toured as "Yum-Yum" in The Mikado in 1885.[13][14] In 1889 she starred in Ardriell, a comic opera staged at the off-Broadway Union Square Theatre. Critic Alan Dale commented that "Miss Paullin can certainly make herself heard, and that is about all that can be favorably said about her performance, which was characterized by an intense lack of refinement, and a pretty well defined mispronunciation of the English language."[15] In 1897 she appeared in Geisha in Chicago.[16]

Paullin tried her hand at adapting a musical comedy from the German in 1888, when she wrote Our Baby's Nurse, which was produced that year in Philadelphia.[17] She was a popular face on cigarette cards in the 1880s. She also lent her image to endorse "Burdock Blood Bitters", a digestive aid,[18] Lion Coffee, skin care products,[19] and Vin Mariani.[20]

Lawsuit

In 1886, Paullin lost a purse containing over $1500 at a Philadelphia theatre, after she fainted on stage during The Bohemian Girl.[21][22] She sued the stage manager of the Carleton Opera Company, Charles Caspar Fais,[23] saying that he stole the money from her.[24] The case was tried in Philadelphia in 1888,[25] and was in the New York headlines for a week,[26][27] until "the real thief", the prop man at the theatre, confessed that he found the money, and spent most of it.[28][29]

Personal life

Louise Paullin married twice. She died in New York on April 18, 1910, survived by her second husband, theatrical agent H. B. Warner.[2][30]

References
  1. Leman, Walter Moore (1886). Memories of an Old Actor. A. Roman Company. pp. 274. Louisa Paullin.
  2. "The Record of Deaths; Louise Paullin". The New York Dramatic Mirror. June 11, 1910. p. 11. Retrieved October 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Notes". The Salt Lake Herald. July 31, 1887. p. 9. Retrieved October 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Paullin (death notice)". The San Francisco Call. June 6, 1895. p. 13. Retrieved October 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Gossip of San Francisco; A Runaway Danseuse". Buffalo Courier. November 19, 1859. p. 2. Retrieved October 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "A Deplorable Case of Abduction". The Sunday Delta. November 20, 1859. p. 11. Retrieved October 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Return of the Little Louisa to San Francisco". Cincinnati Daily Press. November 25, 1859. p. 1. Retrieved October 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Bray and Carl's Variety Troupe". Santa Cruz Weekly Sentinel. December 6, 1862. p. 2. Retrieved October 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. Salvi, Dario (2017-11-06). Richard Genée's The Royal Middy (Der Seekadett). Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 9781527505292.
  10. Aronson, Rudolph (1913). Theatrical and Musical Memoirs. McBride, Nast. pp. 50, 52, 104. Louise Paullin.
  11. "Fantine". Musical Record: 1. August 1884.
  12. "Zanita (advertisement)". The Boston Globe. December 7, 1884. p. 11. Retrieved October 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. "'The Mikado'". Oakland Tribune. December 1, 1885. p. 3. Retrieved October 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. "Opera Pleasure". Quad-City Times. December 27, 1885. p. 1. Retrieved October 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. Dale, Alan (June 7, 1889). "Drama". The Epoch: 294.
  16. "Columbia Theatre, Geisha (April 19, 1897)". Chicago Public Library Digital Collections. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  17. "Untitled item". The San Francisco Examiner. May 27, 1888. p. 14. Retrieved October 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. "Burdock Blood Bitters: Louise Paullin". New York Academy of Medicine Library Digital Collections and Exhibits. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  19. "Advertisement". Austin American-Statesman. February 22, 1914. p. 18. Retrieved October 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. Mariani & Company; Lalauze, Adolphe (1893). Portraits from Album Mariani. University of California Libraries. New York : Mariani & Company. p. 87 – via Internet Archive.
  21. "Miss Paullin Suffers from Theft". The New York Times. June 11, 1886. p. 8 – via ProQuest.
  22. "He Robbed an Actress". The Times. June 11, 1886. p. 1. Retrieved October 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. "Fais Broken Down". The Times. September 24, 1888. p. 1. Retrieved October 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  24. "Miss Paullin's Suit". The New York Times. September 20, 1888. p. 2 – via ProQuest.
  25. "Actresses as Witnesses; Miss Paullin's Case Against Stage Manager Fais". The New York Times. September 19, 1888. p. 2 – via ProQuest.
  26. "Manager Fais's Defense; His Story of the Loss of Louise Paullin's Money". The New York Times. September 21, 1888. p. 5 – via ProQuest.
  27. "Miss Paullin Indefatigable". The New York Times. September 22, 1888. p. 1 – via ProQuest.
  28. "The Real Thief Confesses; Dramatic Ending of the Trial of Fais, and his Innocence Proved". The New York Times. September 23, 1888. p. 5 – via ProQuest.
  29. "A Sensational Climax". The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 24, 1888. p. 2. Retrieved October 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  30. "An Operatic Row". The Nebraska State Journal. November 27, 1887. p. 2. Retrieved October 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
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