Ruth MacTammany(1892-1977)
- Actress
Ruth Jean MacTammany was born in 1893 in Akron, Ohio, to a bricklayer
father and a dressmaker mother. Ruth was the youngest of eight children
in this musical family. At the start of World War I, she was studying
opera in Italy, and volunteered as an ambulance driver there during the
war. In 1915 she sang with John Phillip Sousa's band at the Hippodrome
in New York, entertaining the crowd with her rendition of "Caro Nome"
from Verdi's "Rigoletto." She was a singer, Broadway actress, and
silent movie star. Her films include "Alma, Where Do You Live?", and
"One Day." She also appeared in the musical comedy play "The Lady in
Red" on the New York stage. In 1917 or 1918, she was secretly married,
but sued for divorce just six months later. In June 1921, she married
again, this time to Alvin Rishel. Ruth MacTammany died in the home of
her niece, Mirriam Warden Zimmerman, in Concord, California, sometime
in the 1960s.