caption death_date death_place birth_name birth_place imagesize birth_date spouse image article_title name occupation
yohé in '' the era almanack '' , 1894 29 august 1938 boston , massachusetts , u.s. mary augusta yohé bethlehem , pennsylvania u.s. 200px 6 april 1866 lord francis hope putnam bradlee strong john a. smuts may yohe 1.jpg may yohé
 may yohé musical actress
may yohé

mary augusta `` may '' yohé -lrb- april 6 , 1866 -- august 29 , 1938 -rrb- was an american musical theatre actress .
after beginning her career with the mccaull comic opera company in 1886 in new york and chicago , and after other performances in the united states , she quickly gained success on the london stage beginning in 1893 .
the following year , in london , she created the title role in the hit show `` little christopher columbus '' .
in 1894 , she married lord francis hope and possessed the hope diamond .
she nevertheless continued to perform in musical theatre in the west end and then the u.s. .
she divorced hope in 1902 and married a series of adventurous , but financially unsuccessful , men .
she performed in music hall and vaudeville on the west coast and in various other places in the u.s. in the early decades of the 20th century , but she was frequently in financial jeopardy .
by 1924 , she and her last husband , john smuts , had settled in boston , where she died in near poverty .
