Pauline Joutard (1890–1957) was a French-born Mexican pianist who performed under the stage name Miirrha Alhambra.For information about her recitals in America, both on stage and radio, see the following: The New York Times, 17 June 1928 (p. 133), 13 February 1931 (p. 21), 13 November 1932 (p. X7), and 15 November 1932 (p. 19).
Her sister Flora Joutard and she had studied in Bad Homburg before touring Europe.p.679: p.225:Die Musik Erster Jahrgang, 1901, p. 539 and South America p.18 p.60 p.63 p. 253 together in the early 1900s. A friend took her to Mérida to play where she would meet and marry her husband, Domingo Fernando Evia y Barbachano (1883–1977), a wealthy Mexican landowner who was a member of two families that have been prominent in the politics and culture of Yucatán since the mid 19th century, one of which, the Barbachanos, has been described as "one of the most powerful of Yucatán's oligarchy.Congresoyucatan.gov.mx Merida.gov.mx Yucatan.gob.mx. The quote is taken from "Tourism 'Wars' in the Yucatan", which is posted on the website of the American Anthropological Association. aaannet.org The article was written by Quetzil E. Castaneda, an affiliate assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Washington and the founding director and professor of The Open School of Anthropology and Ethnography.
On 30 June 1912, she arrived with her husband and two-year-old son Edgar de Evia in New York City aboard the liner "Progreso". According to the ship's manifest, several members of the Evia family immigrated from Mexico to New York at the same time, including her husband's sister Rosario Evia de Espejo with her own husband and children. In the manifest, Alhambra's husband Domingo gave his occupation as farmer. According to the manifest, the family's surname was Evia, not de Evia.
References