Word: dusing
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Died. Hermann Sudermann, 71, famed German dramatist & novelist, whose tragedy Heimat (Magda) was played by Modjeska, Duse, Mrs. Fiske; from apoplexy and pneumonia; in Berlin...
...lovers were lords or poets and their love affairs were not casual encounters but tragedies as poignant and improbable as those through which they sighed and fainted on the stage. Even their indiscretions possessed grandeur and all their daring only added to their dignity. Thus with Bernhardt, Modjeska, Rejane, Duse, Rehan and thus with Ellen Terry, who, a Dame of the Grand Order of the British Empire, the last of her peers, died last week, at 80, in an old house near the tiny town of Small Hythe, England...
...playing Mme du Barry in "Maitresse de Roi." At the matinee on Friday Mme Sorel will play the title role in Camilie. She is heralded as the greatest actress on the French stage, if not in the world at the present time one worthy of wear the mantle of Duse and the Divine Sarah...
Cecile Sorel said she thought Florence Reed and Ethel Barrymore were two of America's greatest actresses, that Gloria Swanson was a great artist, and Charlie Chaplin a genius. "America has the greatest cinema in the world," she stated. "My one regret is that the art of the great Duse is not perpetuated by the films...
...imagine verging on the truth. In fact imagine verging anyway. Miss Fvre sees Etta Banana's tragedy and shuts her eyes. I remembered, as I saw her, that famous evening when the great and only Eddie Foy, his family and I filled the old Madison Square Garden watching Duse play little Eva in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Miss Frye has the same elan, the some esprit, the same biceps...