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May Yohé
Mary Augusta "May" Yohé (April 6, 1866〔Her birth year is often given as 1869, but public records show that the event actually occurred in 1866. See: U.S. Naturalization Records Indexes, 1794–1995, for Mary Augusta Smuts (ancestry.com); and 1870 U.S. Census Records〕 – August 29, 1938) was an American musical theatre actress. After beginning her career with the McCaull Comic Opera Company in 1886 in New York and Chicago, and after other performances in the United States, she quickly gained success on the London stage beginning in 1893. The following year, in London, she created the title role in the hit show ''Little Christopher Columbus''.
In 1894, she married Lord Francis Hope and possessed the Hope Diamond. She nevertheless continued to perform in musical theatre in the West End and then the U.S. She divorced Hope in 1902 and married a series of adventurous, but financially unsuccessful, men. She performed in music hall and vaudeville on the West Coast and in various other places in the U.S. in the early decades of the 20th century, but she was frequently in financial jeopardy. By 1924, she and her last husband, John Smuts, had settled in Boston, where she died in near poverty.
==Early years==
Yohé was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the daughter of William W. and Elizabeth (''nee'' Batcheller) Yohé. Her father, a veteran of the American Civil War, was either the son or nephew of Caleb Yohé, proprietor of the Eagle Hotel, where Yohé was born. William Yohé inherited the hotel and was locally famous for the elaborate miniature village scenes he would construct on the hotel grounds, especially for his annual Christmas putz.〔Martin, John Hill. (''Historical sketch of Bethlehem in Pennsylvania'' ), Orrin Rogers (1872)〕 Yohé’s mother, a descendent of the Narragansett people, was a talented dressmaker, who according to Yohé had a clientele in Philadelphia that included many famous theater people of the day.〔Gates, p. 75〕〔("The Strange Case of WPA Clerk Who Owned the Hope Diamond", ) ''Life'' magazine, May 23, 1938, p. 39〕 As a young girl Yohé entertained the Eagle's guests by dancing and singing in the hotel lobby and recounting childhood stories. What became of her father is unclear. In 1878 he applied for a US Passport with plans to travel to Brazil while family lore has him dying in Colorado or Montana around 1885.〔William W. Yohe, U.S. Passport Applications, April 25, 1878〕 At around the age of ten, Yohé was sent to Europe for a refined education, studying in Dresden and later at the Convent of the Sacré Coeur in Paris.〔Newnes, George. ''The Strand Magazine'', Vol. 10, July–December, 1895〕〔Gänzl, Kurt. ''The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre'', Schirmer, 2001〕〔Crain, Mary Beth. ''Haunted Christmas: Yuletide Ghosts and Other Spooky Holiday Happenings'', p. 12, Morris Books, 2010〕
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