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May De Sousa (November 6, 1884〔 – August 8, 1948〔) was an American singer and a Broadway actress. ==Biography== De Sousa was the daughter of a Chicago police detective,〔1900 U. S. Federal Census, accessed on ancestry.com on 13 September 2012〕 John De Sousa (born 1856 died 1941), and his wife, Carrie (1861—1910). She had a younger sibling, Marvin De Sousa (1891—1921).〔 〔( John De Sousa; findagrave.com ) Retrieved March 11, 2015〕 She came to fame in 1898 as the singer of "Dear Midnight of Love", a ballad by Bathhouse John Coughlin. In 1913, De Sousa declared bankruptcy.〔"May De Sousa A Bankrupt", ''The New York Times'', 28 September 1913〕 De Sousa retired in 1918, following a theatrical production in Australia, married a local doctor, and eventually moved to Shanghai. In 1943, following two periods as a prisoner of war in internment camps in China,〔 she returned to the United States on the ''Gripsholm'' and took a job in Chicago as a scrubwoman in the public-school system.〔 She died in Chicago charity ward, of malnutrition,〔"Once Famous Soprano Dies in Charity Ward", ''Lodi News-Sentinel'', 11 August 1948〕 at age 66. 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「May de Sousa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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