Élise de Vère

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Portrait of Élise de Vère by Léopold-Émile Reutlinger

Constance Élise de Vère (* 1879 in Brussels , Belgium ; † after 1917) was a French actress with English roots.

Life

Her father Herbert Gardiner Shakespeare Williams, who also called himself Charles de Vere or Charles Devere, made equipment for illusionists and also performed his own stage shows. The mother's name was Julia Ferrett; she appeared under the name "Okita". Charles de Vere initially had his magician business in London , moved to Brussels in 1878 and to Paris in 1892 .

Constance Elise de Vere had numerous siblings: Claude Williams (* 1874), Caroline Florence de Vere (1875–1901), Cyrille de Vere (* 1881), Camille de Vere (1885–1909), Clairette de Vere (* 1886) and Clémentine Lisine de Vere (1888–1973), who appeared in shows as "Ionia".

It cannot be ruled out that she performed under the name Connie de Vere in her early years. The misspelling Elsie de Vere also appears from time to time.

Around 1900 Constance Élise de Vère was still working in Paris, where she won second place behind Jeanne Dortzal in a beauty contest at the Olympic Theater. Numerous recordings, especially from the Reutlinger studio , show her as a young, attractive stage star. At times she appeared in Berlin and Vienna, in 1903 and 1904 she was seen in the Broadway play Red Feather by Florenz Ziegfeld in New York . In it she played the Mademoiselle Fifine. In the United States, her name was spelled "Elise de Vere" or "Elise De Vere". As de Vère's residence was still Paris; however, she was a British citizen. She remained unmarried until 1917. In December of that year, she suddenly and without fuss married Frank Joseph Goldsoll in Newark .

Chantant empresses

Peter Altenberg mentions Élise de Vère in his fairy tale of life : “After all, they were very drunk and thought it was a very suitable end to this love adventure, and even the most suitable in every respect. Finally, of course, they wrote a postcard to La Zarina, with a text that they had already used for the Chantant empresses Othérô , Cléo, Billie Burke , Elise de Vère, Minnie Ashley and Mage Lorrison-Osborne . "

Web links

Commons : Élise de Vère  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on ancestry.com
  2. ^ Sir Charles Blake Cochran, The Secrets of a Showman , London 1925, p. 100
  3. ↑ Charles de Veres life data In: geniimagazine.com
  4. ↑ Family data on mundia.com
  5. ↑ Video: On the biography of Clementine de Veres; another brother named Charles is mentioned here. In: youtube.com
  6. ^ Advertisement from 1888
  7. ↑ Report in the New York Times, July 16, 1899
  8. ↑ Page with picture gallery
  9. ↑ Tim Bonyhady, Good Living Street: Portrait of a Patron Family, Vienna 1900 , Pantheon 2011, ISBN 978-0-307-37880-4 , p. 76 ( preview in Google book search)
  10. ↑ Élise de Vère on cabinetcardgallery.wordpress.com
  11. ↑ Information about the role "Mademoiselle Fifine"
  12. ^ Ziegfeld productions
  13. ^ 1910 Cleveland passenger list
  14. ↑ 1917 Chicago passenger list
  15. ↑ The Washington Times, March 7, 1918, p. 2
  16. ↑ Peter Altenberg, Märchen des Lebens , p. 19 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 256 kB)
personal data
SURNAME De Vère, Élise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Vère, Constance Élise (full name); Goldsoll, Élise (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actress with English roots
DATE OF BIRTH 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH after 1917