Khyva St. Albans
Khyva St. Albans (born Eleanor[e] Saenger; 1896-1989), also known as Zara Alexeyewa, Ayenara Alexeyeva, was an American actress, dancer, and choreographer. She was a longtime resident of Ajijic, on Lake Chapala in Mexico. Early life Eleanore Saenger was born in New York City, although she claimed other birthplaces, including France. Her parents were musicians; her mother was organist Charlotte Welles Saenger, and her father was baritone singer and voice coach Oscar Saenger. Both parents supported and financed St. Albans' hopes of a theatrical career, until Oscar Saenger died in 1929. Stage career St. Albans appeared in two shows on Broadway; she played Juliet opposite George Relph's Romeo in a 1915 production of ''Romeo and Juliet'', and she played a dancer in Ruth Sawyer's ''The Awakening (play), The Awakening'' (1918), costarring with Theodore Kosloff. Neither show was well-reviewed; the ''New York Times'' called ''The Awakening'' "a weird and very artificial play" "almost unb ...
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