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Mary Arnaud "May" Naudain (October 12, 1880 – February 1923) was an American musical theatre actress and singer.
Naudain was born in 1880 (although some sources give it as 1872) [1] in Burlington, Iowa,[2] and raised in Omaha, Nebraska,[3] the daughter of Thomas Nelson Naudain and Mary M. Calloway. Her father was a banker.[4]
Naudain appeared on Broadway in Babes in Toyland (1903–1904), It Happened in Nordland (1904–1905), Victor Herbert's Concert (1905),[5] His Majesty (1906), The Little Cherub (1906–1907),[6][7] The Girl Behind the Counter (1907–1908),[8][9] The Girls of Gottenberg (1908),[10] and Katinka (1915–1916).[11][12] She made a recording, in 1916, of the hit song "Rackety-Coo" from Katinka.[13] In 1917 she sang on the vaudeville circuit with Anatole Friedland.[14] She toured o\in vaudeville in 1918.[15] In 1919 she sang on Broadway with The Society of American Singers in a production of The Gondoliers.[16]
One writer commented on Naudain's "genuine wholesomeness and refreshing unstaginess".[17] During World War I she gave benefit concerts and raised money for war bonds.[18]
Naudain married banker Charles Henry "Harry" George in June, 1909.[19][20][4] She died from a heart ailment in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1923.[13][lower-alpha 1]