Information from the book The Young Maude Adams

This is a book by Phyllis Robbins and is one of the more difficult books to find. What I will do in this section is to note some basic facts the book has about Maude Adams. Much of the material relates to the plays she was in and I will place that material with the proper play, so this section will be dealing with everything other than the plays.

Maude Adams had an ancestor, John Howland, who came to this country on the Mayflower. His name is one of the 41 signatures on the Mayflower Compact.

When Maude Adams was two years old she moved from Salt Lake City in Utah to Virginia City in Nevada. She next moved to San Francisco.

When a youth she was fond of licorice sticks.

She wanted the entire plot of the play explained to her and not just her own section of it.

When long winter performing seasons ended she often went to Europe and once went to a convent in France.

She once took a trip to Egypt.

She spent some of her youth on her grandmother's farm so in her adult life she bought some land on Long Island, New York, and ran it as a real farm. She would drive to a mill with bags of grain and would "talk shop" to the miller as he ground her grain.

She later directed and produced plays and had a flair for stage lighting. When she was fifty years old she lived for a time in Schenectady to work in the General Electric laboratories. As a result lamps were produced powerful enough to be used in making motion pictures with color. She did not benefit financially from the work, though, and never received any public credit for them.

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