May de Sousa by Bassano 1905
May De Sousa (1884 – 1948) was an American singer and a Broadway actress.
She came to fame in 1898 as the singer of “Dear Midnight of Love”, a ballad by Bathhouse John Coughlin. She retired in 1918 following a theatrical production in Australia. She married a local doctor and eventually moved to Shanghai.
In 1943, following two periods as a prisoner of war in internment camps in China, she returned to the United States on the Gripsholm and took a job in Chicago as a scrubwoman in the public-school system. She died in Chicago charity ward, of malnutrition, at age 66.
May De Sousa by Bassano, c. 1905
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May De Sousa by Bassano, c. 1905
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So beautiful… and such a horribly sad story… Hugs to you Sarah