Word: duse
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lecturer regretted that the limited time at his disposal prevented him from speaking of all the players that he had intended to speak of, but that he would take up the three greatest performers he had ever seen - the elder Salvini, Madame Janauschek and Eleanora Duse...
Madame Eleanora Duse, who was first seen in this country only two years ago, is not less remarkable, in her own most modern way, than the two players already named. The completeness with which she lives her character in the Cavalliera Rusticana; her quick, vehement, peasant-like gestures; her clumping across the stage in awkward peasant shoes; her subsidence toward the end of the play into a hooded statue of grief, are exhibitions of her talent which will be remembered even longer than the untheatric pathos of her "Camille," or the bewitching gaiety and extraordinarily mobile skill of the coquettish...