Non-pu postcard - “Dainty Novels” series - Kate Cutler
Kate Ellen Louisa Cutler (14 August 1864 – 14 May 1955) was an English singer and actress, known in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as an ingénue in musical comedies, and later as a character actress in comic and dramatic plays. She is possibly best known for walking out of the lead role in Noël Coward's The Vortex in 1924 shortly before opening night.
Cutler was born in Marylebone, London, daughter of Henry Cutler, a singer, and his wife Mary Ann, née Tims. She trained at a conservatoire in Watford, where one of her tutors described her as "an ideal Cherubino" in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. Her career, however, took her not into opera, but into operetta and then musical comedy.
In April 1900, Cutler married her first husband, Sidney Ellison, a director and choreographer. The marriage was unsuccessful, and they separated before his death in 1930. Cutler's second husband, Major Charles Dudley Ward, predeceased her. She died in 1955 at her home in London, aged 90.