Word: duse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...harder than any other member of the company," said one account. "She is the first to arrive at the theatre, and she spends an hour on her make-up alone." Press releases had declared that the English now set her above Ellen Terry, the French compare her with Eleonora Duse...
Escape Me Never! That her first U. S. audience could not go quite so far as to drape over Elizabeth Bergner's slim shoulders the accumulated mantles of Terry, Duse & Bernhardt was no reflection on her very considerable talents. It does not take much of a play to provide a proper vehicle for an authentic diva. The less dramaturgy there is to distract attention from the star, many a leading lady feels, the better. But Playwright Kennedy's tale about the musical Sangers, a faintly connected sequel to her Constant Nymph, is practically no play at all. Every...
...Nathan Zatkin. Most of Playwright Ibsen's magic has survived the 46 disenchanting years that have passed since it was put to paper. Tall Mary Hone, as the wife, performs creditably in a rôle last played in Manhattan by Blanche Yurka five years ago, by Eleanora Duse ten years ago.* Iolanthe. The operetta, during whose composition Sir Arthur Sullivan successively lost his father, brother, mother and fortune, still brings merriment to confirmed Savoyards. William Danforth adds one more Gilbert-&-Sullivan characterization to his long list with the part of the stately Lord Chancellor. Iolanthe is the fifth...
...small Asolo, northwest of Venice, townspeople took a day off last week to commemorate the great Italian actress who, dying in Pittsburgh, Pa., was buried in the Asolo graveyard exactly ten years ago. In her honor they dedicated a Duse Square, opened a museum of Duse memorabilia, rang up the first curtain on a Duse theatre...
...especially written for her, abandoned it to act successively in The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, Strange Interlude, The Constant Nymph. Currently she is in Escape Me Never, a companion piece to The Constant Nymph which will bring her to Manhattan this spring. When this opened, critics talked of another Duse but some galleryites booed, under the impression that Miss Bergner is a Nazi. She is a Jewess...