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Gaiety comedienne Connie Ediss in an early talkie of 1930

The great Gaiety Comedienne, Connie Ediss in a rare early talkie appearance of 1930. from the British talking picture "A Warm Corner" starring Leslie Henson, and directed by Victor Saville in 1930. Connie Ediss was born in Brighton, England, August 11, 1871, and was educated there and in Edinburgh. She made her first appearance in the English music halls under the name of Connie Coutts, and was "discovered" by Ted Marks while singing at the Oxford, London. Her first London appearance at the Middlesex Music Hall was less than a success, however, as they were a tough crowd, and indeed one drunk hurled a beer bottle at her, but fortunately missed! George Edwardes (Gaiety George) saw Ediss singing at the Alhambra, Brighton, and despite the fact that she had no formal training in acting (nor singing, for that matter) he engaged her for the Gaiety, London, to play Ada Smith [in succession to Lillie Bellmore and others] in "The Shop Girl" in 1895. The following year, "My Girl" was produced at the same theatre with brilliant cast including Ellaline Terriss, Grace Palotta, and Katie Seymour. Connie Ediss made history in this show, when she introduced the American Cake Walk to the British audiences. She also introduced American star May Irwin's "Bully Song" to London. (This song, sung by May Irwin, is featured on my YouTube channel at    • Видео   accompanied by images of Miss Irwin, and footage of her in "The Widow Jones" from which the song came, filmed by Edison in 1896) Writer W. Macqueen-Pope wrote of Connie Ediss in Gaiety: Theatre of Enchantment: She was as breezy as Brighton itself ... She became one of that great Gaiety team, and was beloved by all, back and front, at the Gaiety. This buxom woman was a very great comedienne, with a turn for very rich comedy and an ability to sing a number in a manner to bring down the house. Her charms were ample, but that caused her no worry. She turned her avoirdupois to good use ... she had been to America in a visit of "A Gaiety Girl", and had been hailed there as "the Cockney genius" ... how she could sing and, when necessary, how she could dance! Her dancing was as funny as her personality and her acting; and there is no question that she was a very great comedienne, with style, attack and perfect timing. One of her most amusing tricks was to use a tremolo in her voice with entrancing mock-pathetic results. She could whirl an audience off its feet with her jovial gaiety a true daughter of the Gaiety itself ... Connie smoked cigars constantly, good cigars and big cigars. She would often come down to the side of the stage with a big one in full blast. George M. Slater, for years stage manager at the Gaiety, recalls how he would say to her, "Now Miss Ediss, no smoking, please". "Oh, I forgot", she would say, with her sweetest smile. "Here, look after it for me until I come off." At the same theatre, during a twelve years' engagement, she played Mrs. Drivelli in "The Circus Girl" [1896], Carmenita in "A Runaway Girl" [1898], Mrs. Bang in "The Messenger Boy" [1900], Mrs. Malton Hoppings in "The Toreador" [1901], Caroline Vokins in "The Orchid" [1903], the leading part [Mrs Girdle] in "The Spring Chicken" [1905], and the Spirit of the Ring in "The New Aladdin" [1906]. She also played an intermediate engagement at the Lyric Theatre, London, as Miss Jimper in "The Silver Slipper". Early in 1907 Miss Ediss took a trip to South Africa for the benefit of her health, and while there played engagements in vaudeville in Cape Town and Johannesburg. The season of 1907-8 she appeared as Mrs. Schniff in "The Girl Behind the Counter" at the Herald Square Theatre, New York. Connie Ediss's career flourished until shortly before her death in 1934, appearing on both sides of the Atlantic in such productions as the 1910 Broadway production of "The Arcadians". She made a number of recordings between 1900 and 1911, and three screen appearances in the early 1930s, namely A Warm Corner [1930], The Temperance Fete [1932) and Night of the Garter [1933].