Lois Ewell

Lois Ewell (January 28, 1885 - ?), was an American soprano opera singer and Broadway theatre performer.[1][2]

Lois Ewell circa 1913

Biography
Poster of Lois Ewell as The Merry Widow (1908)

She was born on January 28, 1885, in Memphis, Tennessee to James Levi Ewell. She married Henry Ramond Tredwell of Port Washington, New York in 1905 in Brooklyn, New York.[3]

In 1908, she starred in Joe Weber's Burlesque of The Merry Widow at the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York City.[4]

She divorced in Chicago in 1909.[3]

In 1913 she appeared in the Century Opera Company's production of Aida in Manhattan.[4] In 1914 she starred in Tosca with the Century Opera Company.[5]

References
  1. "Lois Ewell Sings at Stadium" (PDF). New York Times. August 10, 1920. Retrieved 2009-07-23. Lois Ewell, leading soprano of the former Century English Opera, sang three songs in French, Alezandre Georges's 'Hymn to the Sun,' Fourdrain's 'Carnival' ...
  2. Pierre V. R. Key (1914). "Opera For And By The People". The Century Magazine. Retrieved 2013-12-08. Lois Ewell, the most efficient and popular of the sopranos, comes from Tennessee, although she is known as a Brooklyn girl because of her lengthy residence in the City of Churches. Miss Ewell will have earned more than $12,000 for her ...
  3. Lois Ewell passport application for 1918
  4. "Lois Ewel". IBDB. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
  5. "English Productions at the Century Opera House". The Opera News. January 31, 1914. p. 1. Retrieved April 11, 2019.


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