Maude Granger

[1] She took over the lead part in Led Astray when Rose Eytinge became ill. She also appeared in The Two Orphans, Two Nights in Rome, The Planter's Wife, Broken Hearts, and My Partner.

[2] Historian David S. Shields has written that Granger competed with Clara Morris for "the title of the most gripping actress of the American stage during the third quarter of the 19th century."

[3] In 1885, the book New National Theater, Washington DC: A record of Fifty Years by Alexander Hunter said of Granger: " The statuesque Maude made by far the most beautiful Mlle.

On a pose in a tableau Miss Granger was a success, but as an actress in such a character as “Camille" she was an insolvent in the dramatic bank, and more people went to see her out of curiosity than with a desire to be entertained.

"[4] Though late 19th century newspapers report other marriages, her obituaries simply noted that Granger married Alfred Calmer of Chicago in 1888, and that he soon after died and she never remarried.