Eva Condon

Eva Condon was an actress of the Broadway stage and vaudeville, from the early to mid 20th century.

Stage career

She resolved to pursue acting at the age of 16. Condon graduated from Hunter College before becoming an understudy in the John Drew Jr. company for several seasons. Her ambition was to excel in high comedy. Her first appearance was in Columbia, South Carolina in A Single Man. She portrayed a villainess in a Thais Lawton role.

Condon acted in Too Many Cooks at the 39th Street Theater in February 1914. This was her favorite theatrical production. Written by Frank Craven, the comedy featured its author in the part of the home builder. The following October she was in The Moneymakers at the Booth Theatre on Broadway. The play was written by Charles Klein who was once in the British Army army and helped protect Westminster Abbey.

Strange Interlude, a nine-act, Pulitzer Prize winning play by Eugene O'Neill, was presented at the Theatre Guild on April 28, 1930. Condon was in the company which brought the work to the stage. Other key performers were Ralph Morgan, Frank Conroy, and Ethel Westley. The production was approximately six hours from start to finish.

At the American Theater in St. Louis, Missouri Condon was with a troupe which performed You Can't Take It with You in November 1938. She had the role of Penny, the playwriting mother. Clarence Oliver headed a cast which was replete with some of Broadway's best actors.

She appeared with Katharine Cornell and Tyrone Power in The Dark Is Light Enough. The program was successful in London and ten cities of the United States, prior to debuting on Broadway in February 1955.

In vaudeville Condon paired with Florence Nash. In motion pictures she performed with Madge Kennedy.

Notable appearances

Plays

• The Other Fellow as Grace Tanner
• C.O.D.
• The Old Firm with Alison Skipworth
• The Same Old Thing
• Spite Corner
• Icebound
• The Best People
• The Guardsman as Mamma
• Move On
• Higher and Higher
• The Closing Door

References

• "Editorial Notes". Denton Journal. April 26, 1930. p. 4.
• "Another Prize Winning Play At American In St. Louis Nov. 6". Edwardsville Intelligencer. October 31, 1910. p. 10.
• "Kit Cornell, Power Team In Fry Drama". Los Angeles Times. February 26, 1955. p. 15.
• "Varied Offerings For First-Nighters". New York Times. October 30, 1910. p. X1.
• "Theatrical Notes". New York Times. October 29, 1912. p. 13.
• "Theatrical Notes". New York Times. January 23, 1913. p. 11.
• "Shakespeare's Thriller Lost In A Year Of Thrills". New York Times. February 22, 1914. p. X6.
• "The First Night Calendar". New York Times. October 4, 1914. p. 65.
• "Topping The Vaudeville Bills". New York Times. January 17, 1915. p. X7.
• "Brooklyn Amusements". New York Times. February 7, 1915. p. X5.
• "Who's Who". New York Times. April 19, 1925. p. X2.
• "Daly's To Present Move On". New York Times. January 15, 1926. p. 18.
• "Up And Down Broadway". New York Times. April 25, 1940. p. 6.
• "Closing Door Is A Tense Melodrama". Syracuse Herald Journal. December 2, 1949. p. 52.