Adrienne Augarde

Adrienne Adele Augarde (12 May 1882 – 17 March 1913) was an English actress and singer popular for nearly a decade on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, primarily for her roles in Edwardian musical comedy.

[6] In November 1898 Augarde was cast by the impresario J Pitt Hardacre as Miss Muffet, principal girl in the pantomime Red Riding Hood, which starred George Robey.

[11] In 1903 Augarde appeared at the Gaiety Theatre in London's West End as a replacement player in the role of Dora in the hit musical comedy The Toreador, produced by George Edwardes.

After a four-month run in New York she returned to London to play Blanche-Marie, one of the title roles in a highly successful English adaptation of the André Messager operetta, Les p'tites Michu (The Little Michus) that ran for 401 performances in 1905–06.

[18] She next appeared in mid-1906 at the Prince of Wales Theatre in See-See, an Edwardes musical set in China, composed by Sidney Jones with lyrics by Adrian Ross and a book by Charles Brookfield.

During the run of the show, Augarde and her aunt Amy appeared in a charity matinée of Trial by Jury at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, along with stars such as Rutland Barrington, Henry Lytton, Courtice Pounds and Gertie Millar, with W.S.

[17] In 1907 she appeared at the Lyric Theatre in the role of Lady Betty Noel in Tom Taylor's historical drama Clancarty, and later that year, at Drury Lane, Augarde played Gwendolyn Ashley in The Sins of Society by Cecil Raleigh and Henry Hamilton.

[21] Her greatest American success was as Daisy in the Broadway version of The Dollar Princess, with music by Leo Fall and Jerome Kern and a libretto by George Grossmith, Jr.

Augarde in 1905