Beth Franklyn

Beth Franklyn
A young white woman with fair hair, wearing a fur-trimmed off-the-shoulder gown, with three strands of beads/pearls at her neck. She appears to be seated in a heavy, carved wooden chair.
Beth Franklyn, from an 1897 publication.
Born1873 or 1875
San Francisco, California
DiedMarch 5, 1956
Baltimore, Maryland
OccupationActress
Years active1890s-1930s

Beth Franklyn (1870s – March 5, 1956) was an American actress.

Early life

Franklyn was born in San Francisco in 1873 or 1875 (sources vary), the daughter of William Payne Barnes and Margaret Barnes.

Career

By 1901, Franklyn had joined the Albaugh Palace Theatre Company in Baltimore, and was John Albaugh's leading lady for several years. She was a member of Amelia Bingham's company in 1908.

Franklyn's Broadway credits included roles in Shameen Dhu (1914), The Revolt (1915), Some Baby! (1915), The Blue Envelope (1916), The Love Drive (1917), Pot Luck (1921), The New Poor (1924), and A Slight Case of Murder (1935). Other stage appearances included roles in Chimmie Fadden (1896), Sowing the Wind (1901), Her Trial Marriage (1907), Alias Jimmy Valentine (1912), The Blue Mouse (1912), Nobody's Widow (1915), The Girl of the Golden West (1915), Oh Look! (1919) with the Dolly Sisters and Harry Fox, Clarence (1921), The Cat and the Canary (1922) with Florence Eldridge and Henry Hull, and Butter and Egg Man (1927). She was known for playing Irish characters.

Franklyn appeared in a silent film, Nothing but the Truth (1920). She also directed school theatrical productions in Baltimore. She favored the tango ("Let everybody dance the tango, if he or she sees fit to do it properly, and living with be better"), and women's suffrage, "but I do not believe in militancy. I think it is just horrid for women to fight," she commented in 1914.

Personal life

Franklyn was reported to have secretly married to Richard Wallach in 1897. She lived with Jane T. Pillsbury, "her companion and friend of 50 years". She died in 1956 in Baltimore, in her eighties.

References

  1. ↑ "Obituary for BETH FRANKLYN". The Baltimore Sun. 1956-03-07. p. 25. Retrieved 2020-11-26 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ↑ "Ex-Actress Dies at Age 83". The Baltimore Sun. 1956-03-06. p. 17. Retrieved 2020-11-26 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. 1 2 "Theatres Last Night". The Baltimore Sun. 1901-04-23. p. 7. Retrieved 2020-11-26 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "Threw Kisses to Audience". The Baltimore Sun. 1906-09-25. p. 11. Retrieved 2020-11-26 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Plays 'Lead' at Poli's". The Evening Sun. 1915-01-04. p. 5. Retrieved 2020-11-26 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. 1 2 3 "Beth Franklyn, Popular Actress, is a Favorite in Baltimore". The Baltimore Sun. 1919-03-23. p. 38. Retrieved 2020-11-26 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Theatres Last Night". The Baltimore Sun. 1901-04-02. p. 6. Retrieved 2020-11-26 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "Miss Bingham's Hit". New York Star. 2: 29. October 17, 1908.
  9. ↑ "'Shameen Dhu' is Olcott at his Best". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1914-01-06. p. 28. Retrieved 2020-11-26 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ Sanger & Jordan (1916). Catalogue of Plays, 1916. Sanger & Jordan. p. 144.
  11. ↑ The Stage year book. Robarts - University of Toronto. London Carson & Comerford. 1916. p. 168.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  12. ↑ "The Blue Envelope". The Theatre: 275. May 1916 – via Internet Archive.
  13. ↑ "The Love Drive". Dramatic Mirror of Motion Pictures and the Stage. 77: 5. November 10, 1917.
  14. ↑ Hamilton, Cosmo (1924). Four Plays: The New Poor, Scandal, The Silver Fox, The Mother Woman. Little, Brown. p. 2.
  15. ↑ Hischak, Thomas S. (2009-04-22). Broadway Plays and Musicals: Descriptions and Essential Facts of More Than 14,000 Shows through 2007. McFarland. p. 323. ISBN 978-0-7864-5309-2.
  16. ↑ "'Chimmie Fadden' and 'The Sparrow'". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1896-01-07. p. 7. Retrieved 2020-11-26 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ↑ "'Alias Jimmy Valentine'". The Boston Globe. 1912-11-05. p. 11. Retrieved 2020-11-26 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ↑ "The Blue Mouse". The Boston Globe. 1912-10-29. p. 8. Retrieved 2020-11-26 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ↑ "Her Dressmaker Now at War". The Baltimore Sun. 1915-01-11. p. 5. Retrieved 2020-11-26 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ↑ "Beth Franklyn Happy". The Baltimore Sun. 1915-01-06. p. 4. Retrieved 2020-11-26 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. ↑ "To Make Their Bow with Poli Players". The Evening Sun. 1915-01-04. p. 10. Retrieved 2020-11-26 – via Newspapers.com.
  22. ↑ "Clarence (advertisement)". The Fort Wayne Sentinel. 1921-01-27. p. 8. Retrieved 2020-11-26 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. ↑ Thorold, W. J.; Hornblow, Arthur; Maxwell, Perriton; Beach, Stewart (April 1922). "National: The Cat and the Canary". Theatre Magazine. 35: 234.
  24. ↑ "In Much Talked of Plays of New York". The Spur. 29: 51. April 1, 1922.
  25. ↑ "Brown Players Arrive in City Ready for Week of Rehearsals". The Courier-Journal. 1927-04-11. p. 1. Retrieved 2020-11-26 – via Newspapers.com.
  26. ↑ "Beth Franklyn". The Courier-Journal. 1927-07-24. p. 22. Retrieved 2020-11-26 – via Newspapers.com.
  27. ↑ "Stage Fright Comes When Not Expected". The Evening Sun. 1914-01-13. p. 5. Retrieved 2020-11-26 – via Newspapers.com.
  28. ↑ "Miss Franklyn's Marriage". The Times. 1897-12-31. p. 4. Retrieved 2020-11-26 – via Newspapers.com.
  29. ↑ "Beth Franklyn Rites Scheduled". The Evening Sun. 1956-03-06. p. 4. Retrieved 2020-11-26 – via Newspapers.com.
  30. ↑ "Beth Franklyn, Ex-Actress, Dies". The Baltimore Sun. 1956-03-06. p. 36. Retrieved 2020-11-26 – via Newspapers.com.