Mabel Green

Mabel Green (1 November 1887 – 29 November 1975), born Mabel Gladys Coomber, was a British actress.

Mabel Green
Mabel Green pictured in May 1905
Born
Mabel Gladys Coomber

1 November 1887
Notting Hill, London
Died29 November 1975

Early life

Mabel Gladys Coomber was born in Notting Hill, London, the daughter of Alfred Coomber and Matilda (Maud) Tanner Coomber.

Career
Mabel Green, from a 1907 publication

Mabel Green first came to attention in the English adaptation of André Messager's The Little Michus (1905), with Maxine Elliott and Adrienne Augarde;[1] the reviewer in The Observer found Green and Augarde's performances "refreshing," "singing and acting as they did with a girlish abandon and an absence of effort."[2] Later stage appearances came for Green in The Dairymaids (1907), The Florentine Tragedy (1909), The Balkan Princess (1910),[3] and in pantomimes Cinderella (1920–1921), Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1921–1922),[4] and The Co-optimists (1924).[5] She was popular as a subject of postcard photographs and other memorabilia.[6][7]

In 1911 Green sang at the Tivoli music hall.[8] Her performances there were not so well-received as her other work, with the Guardian reviewer commenting that "Mabel Green has a nice, sweet voice, a pretty smile, and some other qualities, but you cannot feel that there is any meaning in the gentle sentiments she sings about."[9]

Green was an early motoring enthusiast, posing for photographs with her REO Landaulette in 1907.[10][11]

Personal life

Mabel Green married three times. Her first husband was Tom Stanley Steel; they married in South Africa in 1912. They divorced in 1917. Her second husband was Prussian-born Julius Sigismund Wetzlar, deputy chairman of the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa. He died in 1938.[12] Her third husband was Zante Gower Burmester; they married in 1940. He died in 1971. She died in 1975, aged 88 years.[13]

References
  1. "The Return of Sir Henry Irving". The Sphere. 21: 128. May 6, 1905.
  2. "'The Little Michus' at Daly's". The Observer. April 30, 1905. p. 5. Retrieved May 18, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "The Prince of Wales; The Balkan Princess". The Observer. February 20, 1910. p. 8. Retrieved May 18, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. H. B. (December 24, 1921). "The Opera House". The Guardian. p. 8. Retrieved May 18, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Advertisement". The Guardian. April 4, 1924. p. 1. Retrieved May 18, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "'Real Photo' Postcards (advertisement)". The Sketch. 61: XII. 10 February 1908.
  7. Coysh, Arthur Wilfred (1996). The Dictionary of Picture Postcards in Britain, 1894-1939. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 978-1-85149-231-2.
  8. "The Tivoli". The Guardian. April 4, 1911. p. 11. Retrieved May 18, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. "The Tivoli". The Guardian. October 31, 1911. p. 16. Retrieved May 18, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Little Michu and Motor Expert, Miss Mabel Green Driving her New 16-hp REO Landaulette". The Sketch. 57: 157. 13 February 1907.
  11. "Miscellanea". The Bystander. 13: 362. 13 February 1907.
  12. "Diamond Deposits of German South West Africa (E. Oppenheimer and Alpheus F. Williams), William L. Honnold papers". Claremont Colleges Library. 4 June 1914. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  13. "Mabel Green (Mabel Gladys Coomber)". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
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