Robson
MAY, an American actress, born in Australia. She was educated at Brussels and at Paris, and came to the United States in 1879. Her first appearance on the stage was as "Tilly," in "The Hoop of Gold," at Brooklyn in 1884.
From 1886 to 1893 she played under the management of Daniel Frohman at the Madison Square and Lyceum Theaters, New York, and from 1893 to 1906 under the management of Charles Frohman.
Her first appearance as a "star" occurred in 1907 at Scranton, Pa., in "The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary," in which play she appeared in London in 1910.
Since then she has appeared in many stellar rôles with great success, both in this country and in England. She wrote, together with C. T. Dazey, "A Night Out" (1911).