The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Adams, Maud Kiskadden

ADAMS, Maud Kiskadden, American actress: b. Salt Lake City, 11 Nov. 1872. She is the daughter of an actress, who, under the stage name of Adams, was leading woman of a stock company in that city. Her first appearance was made while a child on a stage in the West; she then continued to take children's parts till she reached the age of 16 when she left Daniel Frohman's company to take an important role in Hoyt's &lsquo;A Midnight Bell.&rsquo; She later became a member of Charles Frohman's stock company; in 1892 supported John Drew in &lsquo;The Masked Ball&rsquo;; and in 1898 scored a marked success as Lady Babbie in J. M. Barrie's &lsquo;Little Minister.&rsquo; In 1899 she played Juliet in &lsquo;Romeo and Juliet&rsquo;; in the season of 1900-01, won further approval as the Due de Reichstadt in Rostand's &lsquo;L'Aiglon&rsquo;; in 1901-02 took the character of Miss Phoebe in Barrie's &lsquo;Quality Street&rsquo;; in 1903-04 played 'The Pretty Sister of Jose 1; and in 1905-07 Barrie's &lsquo;Peter Pan.&rsquo; She has appeared in such Shakespearean roles as Viola and Rosalind and assumed the title role in Rostand's &lsquo;Chanticleer&rsquo; in 1911. In 1913-14 she starred in Barrie's &lsquo;Legend of Leonora.&rsquo; Consult Clapp and Edgett, &lsquo;Players of the Present,&rsquo; in the Dunlap Society Publications (New York 1899).