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Evelyn Mary Millard (18 September 1869 – 9 March 1941) was an English Shakespearean actress, actor-manager and "stage beauty" of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries perhaps best known for creating the role of Cecily Cardew in the 1895 premiere of Oscar Wilde's play ''The Importance of Being Earnest''. ==Early life and career== Millard was born in Kensington in London in 1869, one of three daughters of John Millard (1838 –1900), a teacher of elocution at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, and his wife, Emily (née Cooke) (1848–1902). Evelyn Millard studied at the Female School of Art in Bloomsbury.〔Gillan, Don. (Evelyn Millard 'Stage Beauty' website, accessed 3 April 2011 )〕 She made her first stage appearance in 1891 in a "walk-on" role in Henry Arthur Jones' play ''The Dancing Girl'' at the Haymarket Theatre in London. She trained as an actress under Sarah Thorne at her School of Acting based at the Theatre Royal in Margate, where she learnt "voice production, gesture and mime, dialects and accents, make-up, the portrayal of characters, the value of pace and the value of pauses".〔(Sarah Thorne on the Theatre Royal Margate Archive )〕 For Thorne she played Julia in ''The Hunchback'', Juliet in ''Romeo and Juliet'' and Hero in ''Much Ado About Nothing''. She then joined Thomas Thorne's company, and toured in the plays ''Joseph's Sweetheart'', ''Miss Tomboy'', ''Sophia'' and ''Money''.〔 Millard then spent almost two years at the Adelphi Theatre in London. In 1894 Millard toured with George Alexander, for whom she played Rosamund in ''Sowing the Wind'', Dulcie in ''The Masqueraders'' and Paula in ''The Second Mrs Tanqueray''; she also played the latter role at the St James's Theatre. At this theatre she created the role of Cecily Cardew in the 1895 premiere of Oscar Wilde's ''The Importance of Being Earnest''. In September 1895 Millard appeared before Queen Victoria in a Royal Command Performance of ''Liberty Hall'' at Balmoral.〔 From January 1896 she played Princess Flavia in the London premiere of the play ''The Prisoner of Zenda''. In 1897 Millard joined the theatrical company of Herbert Beerbohm Tree and played Portia in ''Julius Caesar'' in 1898 at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.〔(Millard on 'Shakespeare and the Players - the Players' - Emory University website )〕〔(Millard on the Internet Movie Database )〕 For the American theatrical manager Charles Frohman, she played Lady Ursula in ''The Adventure of Lady Ursula'' at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1898,〔(Photograph of Millard in ''The Adventure of Lady Ursula'' (1898) - Victoria and Albert Museum Collection )〕 the title role in Jerome K. Jerome's ''Miss Hobbs'', both of which ran for over 200 performances, and Cho-Cho-San in the London premiere of David Belasco's play ''Madame Butterfly'', which opened on 28 April 1900 at the Duke of York's Theatre and which ran for sixty-eight performances. The cast included Allan Aynesworth, Claude Gillingwater and J. C. Buckstone. This production was seen by the composer Giacomo Puccini, who is said to have based his opera ''Madama Butterfly'' on it.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Evelyn Millard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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