Jane Hading (25 November 1859 – 28 February 1941)(19 February 1941)

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'' was a French actress. Her real name was Jeanne-Alfrédine Tréfouret.Jane Hading
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'' (November 1895)

Biography

She was born in

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, where her father was an actor at the Gymnase. She has said that her first appearance on the stage came when she was three years old. She was trained at the local Conservatoire and was engaged in 1873 for the theatre at Algiers, and afterwards for the Khedivial theatre at

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, where she played, in turn, coquette,

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and ingenue parts. Expectations had been raised by her voice, and when she returned to Marseille she sang in operetta, besides acting in ''

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''. She first appeared in Paris in 1879 in ''La chaste Suzanne'' at the Palais Royal, and she was again heard in operetta at the Renaissance. She sang in ''La petite mariée'' and ''

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''. In 1883 she had a great success at the Gymnase in ''Le maître de forges''. In 1884 she married Victor Koning (1842-1894), the manager of that theatre, but divorced him in 1887. In 1888 and 1893, she toured America with Benoît Constant Coquelin. She helped to give success to

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's ''Le Prince d'Aurec'' at the Vaudeville in 1892, and afterwards joined the Comédie Française. Her reputation as one of the leading actresses of the day was established not only in France but in America and England. She also toured South America.

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chose her for the title role of his ''Marcelle'' in 1896. Her later repertoire included ''Le Demi-monde'',

Alfred Capus Alfred Capus (25 November 18581 November 1922) was a French journalist and playwright, who was born in Aix-en-Provence and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Biography Son of a lawyer from Marseille, Alfred Capus went to university in Toulon. After fail ...

's ''La Châtelaine'', Charles Maurice Donnay's ''Retour de Jerusalem'', ''La Princesse Georges'' by

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, and

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's ''Plus que reine''.

Gallery

File:Jane Hading, by Alfred Roll.jpg, Jane Hading ( Alfred Roll, 1890) File:Jane Hading - Toilette de théâtre par Redfern 1906 cropped.jpg, In ''Serge Panine'' at théâtre de la Gaîté in 1906. File:Jane Hading, Paris, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes MET DP829625.jpg, alt=Woman standing with two dogs, Jane Hading, ca. 1888 File:Jane Hading, Paris, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes MET DP829627.jpg, alt=Woman sitting holding flowers in left hand, Jane Hading, ca. 1888

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References

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hading, Jane 1859 births 1941 deaths French stage actresses 19th-century French actresses Actresses from Marseille