Paula Edwardes

[4] Edwardes was known for performing soubrette parts using an exaggerated accent called "Americanized Cockney" by one reviewer.

[5] In 1906, ragtime composer Cora Folsom Salisbury wrote a valse caprice for piano named "Paula" and dedicated it to Edwardes.

[11] As Edwardes grew older, she was no longer suited to soubrette parts and did not win other roles.

"Thus Paula Edwardes, when her youth faded, faded simultaneously from view," explained critic George Jean Nathan; he told of an encounter with the older Edwardes, dressed girlishly and claiming to be her own teenaged niece, in hopes of reclaiming the fame of her earlier days.

[12] In 1926, a police officer found Edwardes, holding a crucifix and praying in the rain, on a street corner in New York City.