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Louise Gunning (April 1, 1879 – July 24, 1960), was an American soprano singer popular on Broadway in Edwardian musical comedy and comic opera from the late 1890s to the eve of the First World War. She was perhaps best remembered as Princess Stephanie of Balaria in the 1911 Broadway production of ''The Balkan Princess''. During the war years Gunning began to close out her career singing on the vaudeville circuit. ==Early life and career== Gunning was born in Boston, Massachusetts〔(Louise Gunning on Acting as a Musical Art. ''San Francisco Call'', Volume 111, Number 136, April 14, 1912, p. 31 ) Retrieved July 28, 2013〕 and later lived in Brooklyn, New York where her father was a Baptist minister. Her mother, Mary Gunning, was a choir director who, besides her daughter, also trained the silent film actress Lucille Lee Stewart.〔(''The Moving Picture World'', February 26, 1916, p. 1276 ) Retrieved July 28, 2013〕 Gunning made her first stage appearances as a chorus singer in a Frank Daniels show and later as a solo act singing Scottish ballads. In 1897 (around the time of her parent's divorce)〔(''Brooklyn Daily Eagle Alminac'', 1897, pp. 440-441 ) Retrieved July 27, 2013〕 she appeared in a New York production of ''The Circus Girl'', followed in rapid succession by performances in the Charles H. Hoyt farce comedies ''A Stranger in New York'', ''A Milk White Flag'' and ''A Day and a Night''. In the fall of 1899 she sang in the Rogers Brothers hit farce musical, ''The Roger Brothers in Wall Street'' at the old Victoria Theatre, New York.〔(Briefly Told. ''The Washington Times'', August 16, 1903, p. 3, col. 2 ) Retrieved July 27, 2013〕〔Gänzl, Kurt – ''The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre'' – Volume 2, 2001, p. 833〕〔(''Munsey's Magazine'', Vol. 40, 1908, p. 418 ) Retrieved July 24, 2013〕〔(Parker, John – ''Who's Who in the Theatre'', p. 270 ) Retrieved July 26, 2013〕〔(Louise Gunning – Internet Broadway Database ) Retrieved July 27, 2013〕 In 1902 Gunning sang ''It Seems Like Yesterday'' in the Isidore Witmark and Frederic Ranken musical comedy ''The Chaperons'' at the Cherry Blossom Theatre, Washington, D. C. and the following year at the Herald Square Theatre she played Arabella in the musical ''Mr. Pickwick''; from the Charles Dickens novel, ''The Pickwick Papers''. By the fall of 1903 Gunning was touring with Frank Daniel's company playing Euphemia in ''The Office Boy'', by Engländer and Smith,〔Frank Daniels in "The Office Boy." ''New York Times'', September 15, 1903, p. 9〕 and the following year she appeared at the Broadway Theatre as Laura Skeffington in the Stang and Edwards musical comedy, ''Love's Lottery''. Gunning was Pepi Gloeckner in ''The White Hen'' by Gustav Kerker and Roderic C. Penfield in February 1906 at the Casino Theatre, and later that year starred in vaudeville with the Shubert organization in the light opera ''Véronique''. She played Sophia in November 1907 in the comic opera ''Tom Jones'' at the Astor Theatre, and in October 1908 the title role in the Frank Pixley and Gustave Luders comic operetta, ''Marcelle'', staged at the Casino Theatre.〔〔 In February 1911, Gunning first played in ''The Balkan Princess'' as Princess Stephanie at the Herald Square Theatre, and then continued the run the following week at the Casino Theatre before embarking on a long tour later in the year. In May 1911 Gunning played Josephine in a two-month revival of ''H.M.S. Pinafore'' at the Casino Theatre and, at the Broadway Theatre in March 1913, she was Annabel Vandeveer in ''The American Maid'', a short lived comic opera by John Philip Sousa and Leonard Liebling. She joined the stock company at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in May, 1914, to guest star as Mary in ''Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway''.〔〔 Reportedly Gunning was forced to cancel a European tour and return to America when in 1914 war threatened the continent.〔Louise Gunning Marries. ''The New York Times'', July 28, 1915, p. 9〕 In 1915 she began a series of vaudeville singing engagements that would continue into the early 1920s.〔Topping the Vaudeville Bills. ''New York Times'', November 14, 1915; p. X9〕 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「Louise Gunning」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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