Yvonne Garrick

Garrick was a new actress when she appeared in Château Historique in 1900 at the Theatre National de l'Odéon.[5] She played the title role in Psyche, and appeared in Le Mariage de Figaro, Colinette, and La Nuit de Mai,[6] at the Odéon, all in 1901.[7] Garrick appeared in Le Luxe des Autres at the Odéon in 1902.[3]With the Comédie-Française in 1905, she played Jessica in Shylock, ou le Marchand de Venice.[8] She played the title role in Jeanne Qui Rit at the Théatre Rejane in 1908.[9] In 1909, back at the Odéon, she starred in Le Poussin.[10] She starred in Edouard Pailleron's comedy Le Monde où l'on s'ennuie with the Comédie Francaise, and she returned to that show to the United States.[11]

Garrick's New York debut came in 1915, in the farce Mon Ami Teddy.[12] She reprised her role in Le Monde où l'on s'ennuie and was also in Arsène Lupin and La Sacrifiee, all at New York's Theatre Francais in the spring of 1916.[13][14][15][16] In 1919, she starred in Frou Frou in Montréal,[17] and in Le Gendre de M. Poirier at the Theatre du Vieux Columbier;[18] and she was in a company at the Lenox Little Theater.[19] In 1920, Garrick toured the United States in three short plays, opposite Belgian actor Carlo Liten;[20] she also appeared in Musk on Broadway that year.[21][22][23] In 1921 she gave a recitation at a reception for French ambassador Jean Jules Jusserand given by the Cercle Rochambeau in New York.[24]

In January 1916, Garrick was part of a group of actresses and writers to read letters from Edith Wharton's The Book of the Homeless, at a fundraising event for war relief causes, at art gallery in New York.[25] She was on the programs of wartime benefit shows in 1918, including a concert for Secours Franco-Americain at the Ritz-Carlton[26] and a Lake Placid, NY fundraiser for the American Friends of Musicians in France.[27]