Coyla May Spring

[2] Coyla May Spring was a dramatic reader, pianist, and singer, performing musical and spoken works on the Chautauqua circuit and lyceum platform.

Her eyes just sparkle with delight, each move is one of grace, She has a charm of figure, and a winsome girlish face, And in between the numbers, when the quartet rings and toots, Doth Coyla charm her hearers, as she coyly elocutes.

[15] After Smith's death in 1930, Coyla and Lotus Spring continued performing together,[16] sometimes with other women musicians.

[17] In 1944 she renewed the copyright to several songs written by Clay Smith for a revue called Cheep,[18] with titles such as "I Shall See You Tonight", "If It's In John Bull It Is So", "Somebody's Coming to Tea", "At the Calico Ball", and "Oh, My Lily of Killarney".

[23] Coyla May Spring married again, to Canadian tenor Theodore Mitchener; she lived in Culver City, California, in 1955.

The Smith-Spring-Holmes Orchestral Quintet, from a 1915 publication.
The Smith-Spring-Holmes Orchestral Quintet , from a 1915 publication. The women in the photo are Coyla May Spring (piano), Lotus Flower Spring (cello), and Freida Bethig (violin); the men in the photograph are Clay Smith and Guy E. Holmes. (Various other women played violin in the group in later seasons.)