Word: cleopatras
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...Princess Radjah", with her famous "Cleopatra" dance, accompanied by a seven-foot snake, furnished a sufficiently thrilling curtain-piece. There was but one regret; that Billy B. Van didn't get a chance to finish that joke about the girl in Paris...
...present time he has made each year a magnificent production of one of Shakespeare's plays: 'The Merry Wives of Windsor,' 'Hamlet.' 'Julius Caesar,' 'King John,' 'A. Midsummer Night's Dream,' 'Twelfth Night,' 'King Richard III,' 'The Tempest,' 'Much Ado About Nothing,' 'The Winter's Tale,' 'Antony and Cleopatra,' 'The Merchant of Venice,' 'King Henry VIII,' 'Macbeth,' 'Othello,' and since 1905 has given an annual Shakespeare Festival, including many of these plays. We are glad to welcome to Boston this famous actor-manager and his admirable company. As Sir Walter Raleigh said, 'Now for King Henry VIII...
...Henry Irving included "Much Ado About Nothing." "Henry VIII," and "King Arthur." The present American tour is his sixth the first being with Mary Anderson in 1885; and the others following in 1889, 1902, 1905, and 1909-10. His most famous Shakespearian plays besides "Hamlet" are "Macbeth," "Caesar and Cleopatra." "The Merchant of Venice," and "Othello...
...stages and scenery of important theatres in the United States. Among the views will be a number in colors of jules Guerin's scenery for the plays given at the New Theatre in New York: such as "The Cottage in the Air" by E. G. Knoblauch '96 "Antony and Cleopatra." "The School for Scandal," and "Strife." The lecture will be free and open to the public...
...30th of October, 54 A.D., the Emperor Claudius died, and Nero succeeded him at the age of 17 years. The new emperor continued his study of music, grammar, and language, and allowed his mother, Agrippina, to seize control of the state. But she became a Roman Cleopatra, and because of her refusal to spend the public money for pleasure, she became unpopular. Nero was now living a selfish and extravagant life in the midst of riches and pleasures, and is said to have preferred the theatre to the Senate. Agrippina chafed at this and a struggle arose between mother...