May Milloy (January , â€" November , ) was an American actress on
Broadway, vaudeville, and in several films.May Milloy is usually
described as Dublin-born, however some reviews mentioned Montreal as
her home. She had acted in Montreal by , before moving to the United
States. Her brother Richard Milloy was also an actor and vaudeville
performer, and he was also described as being from Montreal.Milloy was
in two Broadway shows in , The Fatted Calf and The Point of View.
Other shows she acted in included My Geraldine (, in Montreal), Mr.
Hopkinson ( tour, including Seattle and San Francisco) and More Sinned
Against Than Usual (-), "a high-class travesty sketch". She performed
on vaudeville in an all-woman show called Beauty is Only Skin Deep
(-). In , she was still on vaudeville, in an act with her husband,
Texas actor Ford West.Milloy's advice to women, as recorded in a
interview, was this: "Women should read, study, make an effort to have
their mental equipment modern and useful. It can only be done by work;
but if women worked as hard at their minds as they do at their
complexions and their clothes, the world would be a more amusing and
satisfactory place in which to live."
Broadway, vaudeville, and in several films.May Milloy is usually
described as Dublin-born, however some reviews mentioned Montreal as
her home. She had acted in Montreal by , before moving to the United
States. Her brother Richard Milloy was also an actor and vaudeville
performer, and he was also described as being from Montreal.Milloy was
in two Broadway shows in , The Fatted Calf and The Point of View.
Other shows she acted in included My Geraldine (, in Montreal), Mr.
Hopkinson ( tour, including Seattle and San Francisco) and More Sinned
Against Than Usual (-), "a high-class travesty sketch". She performed
on vaudeville in an all-woman show called Beauty is Only Skin Deep
(-). In , she was still on vaudeville, in an act with her husband,
Texas actor Ford West.Milloy's advice to women, as recorded in a
interview, was this: "Women should read, study, make an effort to have
their mental equipment modern and useful. It can only be done by work;
but if women worked as hard at their minds as they do at their
complexions and their clothes, the world would be a more amusing and
satisfactory place in which to live."
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