Word: duse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the cast, but there is good evidence that she is not the only actress in Italy. Lea Padovani mixes all the called-for emotions successfully in the role of the poor girl, while rich girl Elli Parvo manages to appear callous and concerned at the same time. Victoria Duse, as the angular hero, casts his lot with the good people at the required moment, and portrays the true heroic metamorphosis...
More than 40 years ago, when Eleonora Duse was making her long faces and Weber and Fields their happy ones, a different sort of team was approaching its half-century mark with a very untheatrical announcement. "If you don't know Billings and Stover," said the notice, "this will introduce them." But there was no need to be theatrical for this partnership was as familiar to Harvard students as the pump in the Yard and the new lecture hall across the way. Too familiar, perhaps, for countless men would pull the bell out front to see if there really...
...extraordinarily mobile. His mouth is big, his chin square, his eyes blue and easy-rolling. His hair has nervously changed from red to brown to blond at various stages of his life. Current color: carrot. His hands were once described by a critic as "the most expressive since Eleonora Duse...
...third annual stab at summer stock, Miss Ann Corio is currently murdering another play in cold blood at the Cambridge Summer Theatre. Undeterred by the critics' chilly reception of her two former expeditions to the hustings, Ann has gone steadily on in her campaign to make herself the new Duse of the American theatre...
...eyed, wild-dream-ing, moody, self-dramatizing (he affected long hair, curvaceous hats, a Windsor tie), he was famed for damning the expense (he spent more than $600,000, most of it borrowed, producing The Miracle, went bankrupt when it folded in Dallas). At various times he represented Eleanora Duse, Geraldine Farrar, Mary Garden, brought to the U.S. for the first time the Diaghilev Ballet, Balieff's Chauve-Souris, the Moscow Art Theater...