Yvonne Garrick

Yvonne Garrick (born 1 August 1878) was a French stage actress.

Yvonne Garrick, by Jean Reutlinger
Yvonne Garrick, by Léopold-Émile Reutlinger

Early life

Marie-Berthe Yvonne Garrick was born at Louhans[1] or Charolles[2]. She studied acting with Maurice de Féraudy at the Conservatoire de Paris.[3] She won the highest prize among female students when she graduated from the Conservatoire in 1900.[4]

Career

In Paris

Garrick was a new actress when she appeared in Château Historique in 1900 at the Theatre National de l'Odéon.[5] She played the title role in Psyche, and appeared in Le Mariage de Figaro, Colinette, and La Nuit de Mai,[6] at the Odéon, all in 1901.[7] Garrick appeared in Le Luxe des Autres at the Odéon in 1902.[3]With the Comédie-Française in 1905, she played Jessica in Shylock, ou le Marchand de Venice.[8] She played the title role in Jeanne Qui Rit at the Théatre Rejane in 1908.[9] In 1909, back at the Odéon, she starred in Le Poussin.[10] She starred in Edouard Pailleron's comedy Le Monde où l'on s'ennuie with the Comédie Francaise, and she returned to that show to the United States.[11]

In North America

Garrick's New York debut came in 1915, in the farce Mon Ami Teddy.[12] She reprised her role in Le Monde où l'on s'ennuie and was also in Arsène Lupin and La Sacrifiee, all at New York's Theatre Francais in the spring of 1916.[13][14][15][16] In 1919, she starred in Frou Frou in Montréal,[17] and in Le Gendre de M. Poirier at the Theatre du Vieux Columbier;[18] and she was in a company at the Lenox Little Theater.[19] In 1920, Garrick toured the United States in three short plays, opposite Belgian actor Carlo Liten;[20] she also appeared in Musk on Broadway that year.[21][22][23] In 1921 she gave a recitation at a reception for French ambassador Jean Jules Jusserand given by the Cercle Rochambeau in New York.[24]

World War I benefit performances

In January 1916, Garrick was part of a group of actresses and writers to read letters from Edith Wharton's The Book of the Homeless, at a fundraising event for war relief causes, at art gallery in New York.[25] She was on the programs of wartime benefit shows in 1918, including a concert for Secours Franco-Americain at the Ritz-Carlton[26] and a Lake Placid, NY fundraiser for the American Friends of Musicians in France.[27]

Personal life

There were published rumors that Garrick would marry wealthy American James Hazen Hyde in 1906.[28] A photograph in the Library of Congress shows her as "Yvonne Garrick Garchery" in the 1910s.[29]

References
  1. L'Art dramatique et musical au XXe siècle (Editions de la Revue d'art dramatique et musical 1904): xxi.
  2. According to her birth certificate, available at the Archives départementales de Saône-et-Loire.
  3. "Small Talk on the Boulevards" The Sketch (March 12, 1902): 295.
  4. "Two New Stars in Drama" Chicago Sunday Tribune (July 29, 1900): 9. via Newspapers.com
  5. "France Weary of Dreyfus Affair" Chicago Tribune (December 23, 1900): 11. via Newspapers.com
  6. "Le Theatre" Revue universelle (1901): 112.
  7. Édouard Marie Émile Noël, Edmond Stoullig, Les Annales du théâtre et de la musique (Librairie Paul Ollendorff 1902): 139, 152-153.
  8. "Drama" The Athenaeum (April 22, 1905): 510.
  9. "Jeanne Qui Rit Produced" New York Times (December 16, 1908): 6. via ProQuest
  10. "Le Poussin a l'Odéon" Comœdia illustré (January 1909): 37-38.
  11. Untitled theatre news item, New York Times (April 16, 1916): X7. via ProQuest
  12. "American Side for a French Triangle" New York Times (December 14, 1915): 13. via ProQuest
  13. "Le Theatre Francais" The World Court (June 1916): 500.
  14. "Pailleron's Farce Played in French" New York Times (April 18, 1916): 11. via ProQuest
  15. "French Act 'Arsene Lupin'" New York Times (January 19, 1916): 12. via ProQuest
  16. "La Sacrifee Given" Brooklyn Daily Eagle (February 15, 1916): 20. via Newspapers.com
  17. "At the Orpheum" The Gazette (April 26, 1919): 16. via Newspapers.com
  18. "Yvonne Garrick" Theatre Magazine (February 1919): 97.
  19. "Carlo Liten Announces Company for New York Season" Music News (June 13, 1919): 22.
  20. "Carlo Liten to Tour" Musical Courier (January 15, 1920): 45.
  21. "Will Present 'Musk' March 11" New York Times (March 1, 1920): 9. via ProQuest
  22. "Dodge and Pogany's Productions" New York Times (December 18, 1919): 18. via ProQuest
  23. "An Old, Old Story is Told in 'Musk' at Punch & Judy" Daily News (March 19, 1920): 12. via Newspapers.com
  24. "Reception to J. J. Jusserand" New York Times (February 20, 1921): E1. via ProQuest
  25. "War Manuscripts Read" New York Times (January 25, 1916): 10. via ProQuest
  26. "In Aid of Secours Franco-Americain" New York Times (February 19, 1918): 13. via ProQuest
  27. "American Friends of Musicians in France Give Concert at Lake Placid" Musical Leader (September 5, 1918): 235.
  28. "Hyde May Marry French Actress" Philadelphia Inquirer (December 9, 1906): 17. via Newspapers.com
  29. Bain News Service, Publisher. Yvonne Garrick Garchery, Andree Barlette (ca. 1910-1915). Photograph.
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