The New York City Woman Suffrage Party had a banner year in 1915, organizing over 5,000 outdoor meetings and almost thirty parades as part of a push to pass a state initiative for a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote (Schaffer 280-1). She had a recurring role as Madge Travis in Reliance Motion Picture Corp.’s weekly serial Our Mutual Girl, released in installments over the course of 1914, and was described as one of the “well known players” in the 1915 divorce trial melodrama The House of Tears, directed by her old stage friend Edwin Carewe for Rolfe Photoplays (“The House of Tears”).ĭuring this time, Tyrone was also an ardent suffragist. Around this time, Tyrone transitioned from stage to screen and began acting in films made at New York City-area studios. Minnewasha, she headed to her apartment on 160 Claremont Avenue, not far from Columbia University (“Madge Tyrone”). When she returned to New York in July 1913 on the S.S. In the summer of 1913, Tyrone traveled to England for several months, perhaps touring with O’Hara’s troupe. By then, Tyrone had become “the leading woman of the company,” described as “a gem” who was “handsome and statuesque” and who “ how to act” (“Theatrical”). She reunited with O’Hara’s troupe in 1913 as “an Irish lassie” in the play “In Old Dublin” on the vaudeville circuit. In 1911, Tyrone nabbed the female lead in the Western love tragedy “Boots and Saddles,” deemed “one of the best attractions of the current season” at the Academy theater in Washington D.C.
Appearing in a bit part as Kitty Adair in the musical “The Wearing of the Green” at Pittsburgh’s Lyceum Theater in February of that year, Tyrone performed alongside “real old-time Irish character players” who sang and danced “with unction and merriment.” This was ethnic, working-class entertainment, exemplifying “the joys and sorrows, the songs and poetry, the sentiment and pathos of Irish character” (“In the Theaters Last Evening”). In 1910, Tyrone traveled the country with the singing Irish comedian Fiske O’Hara.
In 1909, she performed in San Francisco and Los Angeles in “Pals” with Edwin Carewe, with whom she would reunite when she eventually started making movies. Instead, she cast off her birth name to become stage actress Madge Towle before renaming herself Madge Tyrone (Blake “At the Grand”). Henry Towle and Elizabeth Mooney, Margaret attended Radcliffe College from 1901 to 1904, though she did not graduate (“Margaret Elizabeth Towle”). On October 9, 1913, The New York Times published Tyrone’s photograph from “In Old Dublin” while it was being staged at the Montauk Theater in Brooklyn.īorn Margaret Elizabeth Towle in Boston on January 5, 1884, to Irish Catholic parents, Dr.
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