3-702: Mary Hoyt Wiborg (January 28, 1888 – March 27, 1964) was an American playwright, art patron, and socialite. She wrote the 1922 play Taboo that starred Paul Robeson . Wiborg was born in Cincinnati to businessman Frank Bestow Wiborg . Her mother was a daughter of financier Hoyt Sherman , and a niece of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Senator John Sherman . She had two sisters, Olga Wiborg and Sara Sherman Wiborg . Wiborg lived in Paris, France , and according to her obituary in The New York Times
6-774: The French Resistance . She was a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor . Taboo (1922 play) Taboo is a play first performed in 1922, written by Mary Hoyt Wiborg . It is set on a plantation in Louisiana before the American Civil War and in Africa. It opened on April 4, 1922, in the Sam Harris Theater , Harlem . It starred Margaret Wycherly , the only white member of
9-695: Was active in the Red Cross . During World War I, she was one of a skeleton staff at the Hospice de St. Vincent de Paul in Montmirail, France, who cared for wounded from the June 1918 Chateau-Thierry campaign; as hospital founder Harriet Bard Squiers wrote, "The hospital was a slaughterhouse ... Hoytie W[i]borg did such splendid work. She never had her clothes off for nights....I can't begin to tell you how wonderful she has been." During World War II , she served in
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