![]() ![]() Leonard who was a supporting member of the same company besides this operatic connection they had little (two recorded appearances together on film) in common professionally, except working at Universal with the same people.įor the 1907-1908 season Ms. It was her time with, The Californians, that she met Robert Z. Edna was not among the list of principals of the troupe, who all were east-coast folks, but was definitely a member of the group her engagement ended with, The Californians, with the ending of the company in late August of 1907. Dewey, who had also been a backer of, The Bostonians. In 1907 he co-founded, The Californians, with Dollon M. During his later career he relied upon recitals in music halls and hotels for his income he moved to the Los Angeles area in 1905. Karl an operatic tenor had won his fame as a member of, The Bostonians, which was formally known as, The Boston Ideals, a touring opera company. Maison’s next engagement, that began in the spring of 1907 with the California Opera Company, better known as, The Californians, she was under the direction of Tom Karl. Los Angeles Herald, Los Angeles, California, June 25, 1906 After a year with Tivoli, she migrated to Fisher’s Theater, playing in that stock company. Her first professional operatic position was at the age of fifteen with the Tivoli Opera House in San Francisco in 1901 it was after she developed her “rich contralto voice” that the renowned contralto Estafanin Callamarini, took up teaching Edna some thought that Maison gave Callamarini a run for first place as a contralto. ![]() She began her performances at the age of six with the Fred Cooper Stock Company, which operated at the Burbank Theater the theater, which was under construction was finally ready for patrons on Monday, November 27, 1893. Masion was involved in singing in Catholic festivities and fund-raising events. The family was Catholic and attended the Sacred Heart church in East Los Angeles Ms. Maison was a young woman of “much rich, dark beauty,” easily looking the part of a woman of Spanish bloodline, she with brown hair and brown eyes. None of this age-play information in any way detracts from her early, distinct talents. ![]() In the 1900 Federal Census she was born in 1886 and for the 1910 Federal Census her date of birth is listed as 1888. This birthdate confusion (as stated above) for Edna Maison is of course as always an attempt to make the young actress seem younger still, and may have been added to by her parents. In between the different versions of the Masonave grocery store, Peter owned a wood, coal, hay and grain supply business. Mary Ann Ely Maisonave took care of their home and their two daughters that task must have been daunting at times, considering that Peter’s business was often housed in their home. The family moved from the City by the Bay in 1888, back to the Los Angeles area and Peter started the first incarnation of his grocery store, which work he would continue through 1893, and then taking a position with Edward Duggan a local restaurateur. His next residence was in Los Angeles, where he met and married Mary Ely just three days before Thanksgiving, 1884 the young couple moved to San Francisco in 1886 where he picked up the trade of cattle dealer and the Maisonaves welcomed Enda to the world. His initial work was as a cook but the following year he had risen to clerk at the Miner’s Restaurant at the southwest corner of Dupont and Broadway while in San Francisco he became a naturalized citizen, this being in 1877. Peter Maisonave brought his background of farming to the States and that occupation never really played a part (besides the entrepreneurial spirit that accompanies it) in America for this ambitious young man. Her father was a long time Los Angeles grocer, who immigrated to the United States from France, in April of 1872, at the age of nineteen, on his own. If Edna was not born into a wealthy situation, she at the least was birthed into an industrious household, which would benefit her greatly as an example of work ethic. Maisonave (Masion, Mason, Masonave, Maysonave, Malsonave) was born on August 17, 1886, (not in 1892 is as so popularly quoted) in San Francisco, California to Peter (Pierre) Maisonave and Mary Ely Edna’s only sibling, Marie Elise was born 1895. Edna Maison Picture Player Camera Men’s Ball Souvenir Program, 1914Ĭarmen Edna K. ![]()
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