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Mary Adelaide (other)
Mary Adelaide may refer to: *Mary Adelaide Dickey (1882–1960), American vaudeville performer *Mary Adelaide Eden Phillpotts, birth name of Adelaide Phillpotts (1896–1993), English novelist, poet, and playwright *Mary Adelaide Hare (1865–1945), English teacher of deaf children, and suffragist *Mary Adelaide Nutting (1858–1948), Canadian nurse, educator, and pioneer *Mary Adelaide Virginia Thomasina Eupatoria FitzPatrick, birth name of Patsy Cornwallis-West (1854–1920), Irish aristocrat and mistress of King Edward VII *Mary Adelaide Walker, 19th-century English writer *Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (1833–1897), later Duchess of Teck, by marriage *Princess Marie Adélaïde of France (1732–1800), daughter of Louis XV of France *Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg Marie-Adélaïde (, ; 14 June 1894 – 24 January 1924), was Grand Duchess of Luxembourg from 1912 until her abdication in 1919. She was the first Grand Duchess regnant of Luxembourg (aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Adelaide Dickey
Mary Adelaide Dickey (1882-1960) was an American vaudeville performer, who performed as Adelaide or La Petite Adelaide. She was best known in the 1910s and 1920s as half of 'Adelaide and Hughes', a husband-and-wife dance partnership with Johnny J. Hughes. Life Mary Adelaide Dickey was born in Cohoes, New York, in 1882, the oldest of three girls born to W. James and Josephine Dickey. She studied dance under C. H. Van Arnum in Troy, and by 1894 was toe dancing as La Petite Adelaide in New York City. In 1897 she made a movie, ''La Petite Adelaide'', for American Mutoscope Company. Her speciality dance was a Doll Dance. Around 1900 Adelaide married a fairground agent, William A. Lloyd. However, within a year Lloyd was arrested for stealing and pawning her clothes and jewelry, and the pair divorced. Adelaide performed for theater operators including B. F. Keith, Lee Shubert and Oscar Hammerstein. She appeared with James T. Power in '' The Blue Moon'', and with Eddie Foy in '' The O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |