Rebekah Cauble

Rebekah Earle Cauble (May 8, 1901 – November 23, 1963), also known as Rhea Cauble and later as Rebekah Halee, was an American stage actress.

Rebekah Cauble
A smiling young white woman with bobbed dark hair, wearing a tiara-like headpiece low across her brow, and an embroidered dress
Rebekah Cauble, from a 1924 publication
Born
Rebekah Earle Cauble

May 8, 1901
Greenville, South Carolina
DiedNovember 23, 1963
Long Beach, New York
Other namesBecky Cauble, Rhea Cauble, Rebekah Faulkner, Rebekah Halee
OccupationActress
Children3, including Roy Halee

Early life

Cauble was born in Greenville, South Carolina,[1] the daughter of Charles L. Cauble and Felicia Folger Cauble.[2] Her father, a railroad engineer, was killed in an accidental train derailment in 1905.[3] She moved to Atlanta,[4] then to New York in her youth.[5] She attended Salem College, a Moravian women's school in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.[2] Her older sister Miriam was also an actress, under the name "Muriel Folger" (using their mother's maiden name).[4][6]

Career

Cauble went to Cincinnati to gain theatre experience in a stock company as a young woman. While she was in Cincinnati, the teenaged Cauble was featured in a unique and successful fundraiser for the Cincinnati Zoological Gardens, when she was displayed in a cage as an "American Chicken".[7]

Cauble appeared in the Broadway musicals My Lady's Glove (1917), Doing Our Bit (1917), Sinbad (1918), Tangerine (1921–1922) and Oh! Oh! Nurse (1925–1926).[8][9][10] Other stage credits included roles in Jim Jam Jems (1921)[11] and Little Jessie James (1924).[12] "Miss Cauble possesses charm and personality combined with beauty of voice and is a dancer of ability," noted a 1926 report.[13] Later in her career, Cauble performed on radio and television programs.[1]

Personal life

Cauble was engaged to her childhood friend, artist Alonzo C. Webb, in the early 1920s.[14] She married twice; her first husband was David Clarkson Faulkner; they had one son.[15] Her second husband was musician, composer and singer Royal Walter Halee; they had two children, including Roy D. Halee (a Grammy-winning recording engineer).[16] Her husband died in 1960,[17] and she died in 1963, aged 62 years, at Long Beach Memorial Hospital.[1]

References
  1. "Rebekah Halee, at 62; Ex-Broadway Actress". Newsday (Suffolk Edition). 1963-11-26. p. 22. Retrieved 2022-08-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. "Advice to Girls by Rhea Cauble". Boston Post. 1921-02-27. p. 7. Retrieved 2022-08-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "A Spike Causes Wreck of No. 40 and Death of Two". The Charlotte News. 1905-06-16. p. 1. Retrieved 2022-08-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. Woodruff, Fuzzy (1921-11-20). "Dixie Girls Take Place on Musical Comedy Stage". The Atlanta Constitution. p. 11. Retrieved 2022-08-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Rebekah Cauble Did Not Start Her Career via Chorus". The Musical Observer. 23: 56. 1923.
  6. "Rebekah, Showing-Off, Got Herself a Job". Daily News. 1924-03-30. p. 41. Retrieved 2022-08-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. "The 'American Chicken' a Strong Drawing Card". The New York Times. January 21, 1917. pp. front page, picture section. Retrieved August 16, 2022 – via Library of Congress.
  8. Dietz, Dan (2019-04-10). The Complete Book of 1920s Broadway Musicals. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 73–74, 292. ISBN 978-1-5381-1282-3.
  9. Mantle, Burns (1926). The Best Plays. Dodd, Mead. p. 510.
  10. "'Oh, Oh, Nurse'". The Evening Journal. 1925-12-01. p. 21. Retrieved 2022-08-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Rhea and her Hawthorn Hedge". Pittsburgh Daily Post. 1921-03-30. p. 14. Retrieved 2022-08-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Actresses of Stage and Screen". Midweek Pictorial. 19 (12): 28. 1924-05-15 – via Internet Archive.
  13. "Rebekah Cauble is Guest Star of Week in Tangerine at Brown". The Courier-Journal. 1926-05-23. p. 29. Retrieved 2022-08-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. "And She Cabled Just One Word: 'Yes'". The Washington Times. 1922-10-29. p. 64. Retrieved 2022-08-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. "Marcelle McKinny Amy Has Home Wedding; Bride of Mr. Faulkner". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1949-01-16. p. 19. Retrieved 2022-08-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. Hilburn, Robert (2019-05-28). Paul Simon: The Life. Simon and Schuster. p. 59. ISBN 978-1-5011-1213-3.
  17. "Roy W. Halee". Daily News. 1960-06-01. p. 46. Retrieved 2022-08-16 – via Newspapers.com.
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