Word: actor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Signor Rossi, who has been coldly received in this country, declares that foreign critics pronounce him the best living actor...
...preference for a mere stranger; one of whose very name she was ignorant. In vain she assured herself that his conduct at the glen proved him good and noble. "A single act is no basis for determining character," her judgment replied; "it may be quite in keeping with the actor's character; it may be merely a whim." She had been very rash, she knew; and she was growing more and more repentant every moment as she lifted the latch of her father's door...
JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO. are about to issue a "large-paper edition" of their American Actor Series...
...third. This difference of pitch is not wholly foreign to our own accentuation, but it was much more marked among Greeks, and resulted in a sort of sing-song tone. In the choruses the liberty of an octave was allowed, and where there was a dialogue, both actors and chorus sang. In this last case the chorus is termed commatic. The tones were regulated by certain nomes not extant which were probably stiff and inharmonious. We have given up all attempt to reproduce Greek music, but if the actors could have trusted themselves to sing, or at least to intone...
...following remarkable story was told me by an English clergyman this summer, and as he himself was the chief actor in it, I have no doubt but what it is perfectly true in every particular...