Word: cordelia
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...story here is quite simple-a blind nobleman in a priest-ridden hill town quixotically shoulders his brother's misdeeds, earning only calumny and spite from the populace, renouncing society and going to wander, Lear-like, over the bleak table-lands with a wronged barmaid for his Cordelia, a Basque beggar for Poor Tom. It is fiction with strong bones...
Fifty-eight years ago a girl child was born in Ware, Mass., and christened Bertha Ethel. Her father was Charles Knight and her mother Cordelia Cutter Knight (the Cutter family came to Massachusetts in 1630). Little Bertha's brother is named Austin M. He is now a retired admiral. Her sister, Jessie L., grew up and married a widower named David Starr Jordan and is now wife of the chancellor emeritus of Leland Stanford Jr. University. Among the girls who lived in her little town was Rose Casey, now Mrs. Hayes, who is a member of the city council...
...charac ter - Camille, for example - she used it simply as a mold in which to pour her own glowing vitality. She was born 78 years ago. Her father was French, her mother of mixed Dutch and Jewish origin. Her first great triumph came at the age of 22, as Cordelia in King Lear, at the Theatre Francois. Later, feeling her intense individuality cramped by the rooted traditions of the Francais, she left it after repeated quarrels. Her greatest part was probably that of Zanzetti in Coppee's Le Paseant. She has appeared in over 200 roles, among them Hamlet...
...however, that King Lear was made from the beginning of the play to the end, pointing out several instances where the old man was quite clearly sane, especially in the catastrophe where it was dramatically necessary that he regain his reason in order to effect a complete reconciliation with Cordelia...
...Miss Cordelia Lee, violin virtuoso, will give a recital in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, in the Music Building, this evening at 8.15 o'clock, under the auspices of the Division of Music...