From the book The Theatre Handbook and Digest of Plays edited by Bernard Sobel, 1940

Adams, Maude (1872- ) American actress. Born in Salt Lake City where her mother was a leading woman in a stock company. her father, James Adams, was also an actor. She made her first stage appearance when but a baby and later appeared in child parts at the same time she attended school. Made a big success as Little Schneider in Fritz in 1877. At the age of 16, she joined E.H. Sothern's company in New York, laying an ingenue role in A Midnight Bell. She became a member of Charles Frohman's company and supported John Drew. Her most famous roles include Lady Babbie in The Little Minister, Juliet, the title role in Peter Pan,, Maggie Wylie in What Every Woman Knows,, and the principal parts in Men and Women, Quality Street, and A Kiss for Cinderella. After an absence of thirteen years from the stage (1918-1931) she merged from retirement to play the part of Portia in The Merchant of Venice, in which she toured during the season of 1931-1932. She toured the summer theatres as Maria in Twelfth Night in 1937.

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