Oriska Worden
Oriska Worden | |
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 Oriska Worden in costume, from a 1904 publication | |
| Born | Oriska Haverfield July 13, 1868 Cadiz, Ohio, US |
| Died | October 1, 1954 (aged 86) Hempstead, New York, US |
| Other names | Oriska Breidinger, Oriska Baird |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, actress |
| Years active | 1890s-1910s |
Oriska Worden (July 13, 1868 – October 1, 1954), born Oriska Haverfield, was an American actress and singer.
Early life and education[edit]
Oriska Haverfield was born in Cadiz, Ohio, the daughter of George A. Haverfield and Mattie Elna Warman Haverfield. Her father was a disabled veteran of the American Civil War; he died in 1886.[1] Her mother remarried, to Col. Frederick W. Worden in 1888; her stepfather's brother was Admiral John Lorimer Worden.[2] As a young woman, Oriska Worden helped her mother, a physician and orthopedic surgeon who ran "a summer sanitarium and school of physical culture" in Michigan.[3]
Worden attended the Mount du Chantal convent school in West Virginia,[4] and studied voice at the Michigan State Normal Conservatory of Music in Ypsilanti, Michigan,[5] graduating in 1892.[6][7] She pursued further musical studies in Paris with Belgian singer Jacques Bouhy.[2]
Career[edit]
Worden sang with the Castle Square Opera Company of Boston, early in her career.[8][9] In 1897, she toured in the American West with a stock company.[2] In 1899, she modeled and spoke about "the new French tight-fitting skirt" for a newspaper feature.[10]
On Broadway she appeared in The Supper Club (1901-1902) and in My Lady Molly (1904).[11] In 1905, she was in vaudeville starring in The Queen's Fan,[12] an operetta.[13][14] She was in a comic opera, Burning to Sing, in vaudeville in 1907.[15][16]
Worden taught at the summer school of the Petoskey Normal Conservatory in 1899.[17] In 1908, she began teaching voice students at a studio in Carnegie Building in New York.[18] In 1912, she announced that she was directing a theatrical costuming department for Renard's in New York.[19]
Personal life[edit]
Worden married William P. Baird in Tennessee in 1884.[20] She married wealthy Charles W. Glover in 1892.[21][22] In 1901 she announced that she would sue his parents for alienation of affection, and Glover himself for alimony,[8] after they were divorced in 1895.[4] She owned property in Petoskey, Michigan, until she sold it in 1915.[23] Her third husband was John Breidinger; they married in New York in 1923. Oriska Breidinger died in 1954, at the age of 86, in Hempstead, New York.[24]
References[edit]
- ^ Taylor, Wallace (1919). A genealogy and brief history of the Haverfield family of the United States, one of the pioneer settlers of Jefferson County, Ohio, later Harrison County. New York Public Library. Oberlin, Ohio, Press of the News Printing Co. pp. 264–265.
- ^ a b c "She is the Niece of Admiral Worden". The San Francisco Call. 1897-11-07. p. 15. Retrieved 2020-06-17 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "The Happy Home". The Goshen Democrat. September 9, 1891. p. 2. Retrieved June 17, 2020 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
- ^ a b "Her Love Story". Indianapolis Sun. September 25, 1900. p. 5. Retrieved June 17, 2020 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
- ^ "Michigan State Normal Conservatory Class of 1892". Ypsilanti Historical Society Photo Archives. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
- ^ "The Normal School". Detroit Free Press. 1892-06-22. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-06-17 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Hoos-Lemke, Debi (Fall 2011). "Ypsilanti History in Photographs". Ypsilanti Gleanings: 15.
- ^ a b "Untitled news item". Evening Star. 1901-04-27. p. 22. Retrieved 2020-06-17 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Amusements". Evening Star. 1897-04-14. p. 16. Retrieved 2020-06-17 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "The New French Tight-Fitting Skirt". The San Francisco Examiner. 1899-10-08. p. 30. Retrieved 2020-06-17 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Plays and Players" Broadway Weekly (October 12, 1904): 15.
- ^ "Empire Theatre". Boston Sunday Post. March 12, 1905. p. 21. Retrieved June 17, 2020 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
- ^ "Grand Opera House, Indianapolis". Greenfield Evening Star. October 31, 1905. p. 2. Retrieved June 17, 2020 – via Hoosier State Chronicles.
- ^ "Round About the Town". Musical Courier. 50: 33. May 24, 1905.
- ^ "Keeney's Theatre". The Chat. 1907-02-02. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-06-17 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Aspiring Variety Act". Times Union. 1907-02-02. p. 6. Retrieved 2020-06-17 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Advertisement for Petoskey Normal Conservatory". School Moderator. 19: 481. April 20, 1899.
- ^ "Miss Worden's New Move". New York Star. December 12, 1908. p. 22. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
- ^ "Trimmings". Women's Wear Daily. February 26, 1912. p. 8 – via ProQuest.
- ^ "The Baird Romance". Chattanooga Daily Times. 1884-01-18. p. 4. Retrieved 2022-12-11 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Glover House History". The Glover House. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
- ^ "Oriska Worden's Millionaires". Defiance Daily Express. November 26, 1900. p. 4. Retrieved June 17, 2020 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
- ^ "Miscellaneous". The Economist. Vol. 55. January 8, 1916. p. 90.
- ^ New York Department of Health; Albany, NY; NY State Death Index. via Ancestry.
