Caroline Siedle

Caroline Siedle was born in London, England. She moved to New York when she married Edward Siedle, who was properties master for the Metropolitan Opera. She died on February 26, 1907, at her home in Ludlow Park, Yonkers, of pneumonia, after being ill for four days. She was about 40 and had one nineteen-year-old child at the time of her death. ==Career==

Little is known about Siedle's early life or training. Siedle worked in the theatre when British pantomime and Viennese operettas were still being produced, but American musical comedies were becoming increasingly popular. She worked with Ziegfeld, Lew Fields, Charles Frohman, and the Shuberts. She worked with scene designers such as Homer Emens, Ernest M. Gros, Frank Dodge, Ernest Albert, Joseph A. Physioc, and Francis Gates and Richard Gates. Siedle worked on thirteen productions with Julian Mitchell. Upon her death, Mitchell said, "Death in removing Mrs. Siedle, has deprived me of the helper who enabled me to make my reputation. Without her assistance I should never have been able to carry out the musical comedy color schemes which have made beautiful stage pictures. Her taste was always good, and her ability to design amounted to genius." ==Costume Designs==

Siedle contributed to America's visual culture with her designs for the spectacular, first musical version of The Wizard of Oz (1903) and for Victor Herbert's fantasy Babes in Toyland (1903). • The Man in the Moon (1899) • Broadway to Tokio (1900) • The New Yorkers (1901) • The Strollers (1901) • ''The King's Carnival'' (1901) • The Little Duchess (1901) • The Emerald Isle (1902), directed by R. H. Burnside and starring Jerrerson De Angelis. • Nancy Brown (1903) • It Happened in Nordland (1904) • Wonderland (1905) • A Parisian Model (1906) • The Red Mill (1906) • The Tattooed Man (1907) • The White Hen (1907) • About Town (1906) • Dream City (1906) • The Rich Mr. Hoggenheimer (1906) == References ==