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Blanche Massey (c. 1878? – 1929) was a Gaiety Girl and actress best known for her stage appearances in London and the United States in the 1890s. Among her appearances in many productions with the George Edwardes company, especially in Edwardian musical comedies, she was perhaps most remembered for ''A Gaiety Girl''. ==Life and career== Massey was the daughter of Rose Massey, a well-known actress in her time, who died of consumption in 1883.〔("Personal and Other Jottings" ), ''The Morning Call'', 7 October 1894〕 Massey appeared in plays, Victorian burlesques and Edwardian musical comedies as ''A Run of Luck'' (1888), ''Ruy Blas and the Blasé Roué'' (1889) (incorrectly listed as Blanche Massie),〔Vinent, W.T. (Recollections of Fred Leslie, Volume 2 ), p. 100 (1894)〕 ''Carmen up to Data'' (1890),〔(Carmen Up To Data Photo ) (1890), Retrieved August 4, 2011〕 ''Cinder Ellen up too Late'' (1891), ''The Geisha'' (1896),〔Platt, Len. (Joyce, race and Finnegans wake ), p. 134 (2007)〕〔("Massey in ''The Geisha''" ), ''Munsey's Magazine'' (August 1896)〕 ''My Friend the Prince'' (1897), and ''Lady Madcap'' (1904).〔(The Play Pictorial, Vol. V ) (1905)〕〔(Musical comedy in America ), p. 66 (1991 ed.) (orig 1950)〕 She appeared in both the 1893 West End production of ''A Gaiety Girl'' and also the 1894 Broadway production, playing Alma Somerset, the title role, in the latter.〔("''A Gaiety Girl'' Is Here" ), ''The New York Times'', 19 September 1894〕 The ''New York Times'' reviewer wrote, after its Broadway debut in September 1894, that "Blanche Massey is only to be looked at, and few persons will ever tire of looking at her."〔("The Week at the Theatres" ), ''The New York Times'', 23 September 1894〕〔(Photograph and profile of Massey in ''A Gaiety Girl''" ), ''Munsey's Magazine'' (November 1895), pp. 235 and 237–238〕 Massey married actor George F. Tully (1876–1930), who was also an actor and appeared in a few silent films in the 1910s.〔(''Who's Who in the Theatre'' ), p. 1030 (1930)〕〔(''Theatrical costume, masks, make-up and wigs: a bibliography and iconography'' ), p. 488〕〔(George Tully ), Internet Movie Database, Retrieved August 4, 2011〕 She died at age 51. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Blanche Massey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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