Maud Dixon Salvini

Maud Dixon Salvini
Born1866
London, England, U.K.
DiedNovember 25, 1944
New York, New York, U.S.
OccupationActress
SpouseAlexander Salvini
RelativesTommaso Salvini (father-in-Law)
Alexander Salvini (nephew)
Guido Salvini (nephew)

Maud Dixon Salvini (1866 – November 25, 1944) was an English-born American actress and playwright, based in New York City.

Early life and education

Dixon was born in London and raised in Concord, New Hampshire.[1][2] She studied voice at the New England Conservatory of Music with Eben Tourjée.[2]

Career

Acting and singing

Dixon's stage debut came in Boston in 1882, when she was in the first American production of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera Iolanthe. She toured United States as part of actor Tommaso Salvini's touring company, appearing in Othello and The Outlaw.[1][3] With her husband, she appeared on the New York stage in The Three Musketeers (1894).[4] "Her dramatic talents may be said, musically speaking, to be light in the middle register," according to an 1894 publication. "Strong, wild, romantic roles and just the reverse, dainty, delicate, idealistic or classic parts receive equally good interpretation at her hands."[5]

Maud Dixon Salvini's husband, Alexander Salvini, photographed by Sarony

The Salvinis had a series of productions planned together when he died in December 1896, while the couple were in Florence.[6][7] She announced her intention to return to the stage in 1900.[8] In 1901 she opened a costume studio on West 56th Street, serving the theatre business. In 1911 and 1912 she appeared in The Garden of Allah on Broadway, sharing the stage with stars Mary Mannering and Lewis Waller. In 1916 she was in the cast of Macbeth on Broadway, with Viola Allen playing Lady Macbeth and James K. Hackett in the title role.[9]

Writing

Salvini and her husband wrote at least two plays together, Cirillo, or, a Child of Naples,[10] and The Council of the Ten.[11] She wrote another play, A Miracle of Love,[12] and maintained the copyrights on several plays and translations by her late husband.[11]

Personal life

Dixon married Tommaso Salvini's actor son, Alexander Salvini, in 1893.[13] He died in 1896.[14][15] She died in 1944, in her eighties, in New York City.[1] Her grave is in the Actors' Fund plot at Kensico Cemetery in Westchester County.[16]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Maud Dixon Salvini, Ex-Actress, is Dead". The New York Times. 1944-11-26. p. 58. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2020-07-17. Retrieved 2025-07-16.
  2. ^ a b New Hampshire Women: A Collection of Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Daughters and Residents of the Granite State. New Hampshire Publishing Company. 1895. p. 201.
  3. ^ "Salvini in Person". The Hamilton Spectator. 1903-12-19. p. 17. Retrieved 2025-07-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Brown, Thomas Allston (1903). A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901. Dodd, Mead. p. 334.
  5. ^ Gallery of plays from the Illustrated American. Illustrated American Publishing Company. 1894. p. 32.
  6. ^ "Mrs. Alexander Salvini". The New York Dramatic Mirror. 40 (1029): 15. 1898-09-17 – via Internet Archive.
  7. ^ "Salvini's Widow Arrives; Her Plans All Upset and She Will Not Go on the Stage This Year". Boston Post. 1897-02-24. p. 8. Retrieved 2025-07-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Salvini's Wife Will Return to the Stage". Los Angeles Evening Post-Record. 1900-02-23. p. 7. Retrieved 2025-07-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Mrs. Alexander Salvini – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB". www.ibdb.com. Archived from the original on 2025-02-23. Retrieved 2025-07-16.
  10. ^ Library of Congress Copyright Office (1923). Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 294.
  11. ^ a b Catalogue of Copyright Entries: Pamphlets, leaflets, contributions to newspapers or periodicals, etc.; lectures, sermons, addresses for oral delivery; dramatic compositions; maps; motion pictures. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1926. pp. 846, 851, 853, 1022, 1425.
  12. ^ Library of Congress Copyright Office (1937). Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [C] Group 3. Dramatic Composition and Motion Pictures. New Series. p. 69.
  13. ^ "Madame Salvini; Miss Maude Dixon, the Actress, Now Occupies the Position Coveted by So Many". Boston Post. 1893-10-11. p. 5. Retrieved 2025-07-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Alexander Salvini Dead; The Young Actor Breathes His Last in Florence". The New York Times. 1896-12-16. p. 5. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-07-16.
  15. ^ "Salvini's Widow Sued". Los Angeles Evening Express. 1899-11-10. p. 1. Retrieved 2025-07-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "The Final Curtain". Billboard. December 16, 1944. p. 34.
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