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| MARGARET M. MAURICE
Margaret M. Maurice advertised her musical skills in the 1914 Woods Directory. At that time, she was Mrs. Raoul J. Maurice (they married in 1906) and was living with her husband and two young daughters at 1419 Burdette St. Sometime in the next few years, however, the marriage ended. By 1920, we find Margaret Maurice, now a divorcée, living with her parents and daughters at 2530 Cadiz St. She is listed in the city directories of that time as a musician. In the early 1920’s, she joined John Robichaux’s orchestra at the Lyric Theater, a black vaudeville theater at 201 Burgundy Street. Also in the orchestra was trumpeter Andrew Kimble, who became her husband. They left the Lyric in the mid-1920’s, took jobs in Arkansas and Shreveport, but we know little else about the Kimbles after that. Andrew Kimble died in New Orleans in 1942, but we have not been able to determine when Mrs. Kimble died. |
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Margaret Maurice Kimble was a popular performer at the Lyric. Jazz Historian Lynn Abbott quotes a review of the orchestra that appeared in the Chicago Defender in October, 1923: “Prof. John P. Robichaux, violinist, has gotten together five of the best musicians beside himself, and jazz is their middle name. With Mrs. Margaret Maurice at the piano they simply walk their ways into the hearts of a music mad city, the New York of the South.” Two years later, the same newspaper described her as “a marvel.”
(Woods Directory: Being a Colored Cusiness, Professional and Trades Directory, 1914) |