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- ‘Miss Maud Hobson, the premier Gaiety girl, has not yet decided whether she will accept the offer of M. Marchand, the proprietor of the Folies Bergere, Paris, to perform a real Honolulu dance, supported by native women. Miss Hobson was married to the late Captain Haley of the hussars, and went with him to Honolulu, where he became commander in chief and prime minister, and she acted in the capacity of lady in waiting to the queen. Consequently Miss Hobson has had every opportunity of studying the Hawaiian dances. She wishes to give one of them at the Princes of Wales’ theatre, but George Edwardes would not give her the necessary permission, saying that, although he was not prudish, he must draw the line at Hawaii.’
(The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Saturday, 11 August 1894, p.8c)
- Pretty Miss Maud Hobson, the actress, has enjoyed an experience such as not given to all women to have. She had hardly been on the stage a year when Captain W.B.Hayley, of the 11th Hussars, asked her to be his wife. they were married and went together to the Sandwich Isles, and Captain Hayley became Vice-Chamberlain to King Lalakum, wile Miss Hobson was a lady-in-waiting to the Queen. She was there five or six years. Of course she wore the native dress, and adorned herself with flowers. She lived on native dishes, such as dog backed under the ground, raw fish etc., and rode on horseback astride. However she is not sorry to be coming back to her old love, the English stage,
Chilian Times
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Gibbs Family Tree
- 1913
d. 29 Mar 1893, 6 Clarges Street, Picadilly, London