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Died. Eleonora Duse, 65, famed actress; at Pittsburgh, of pneumonia. Born in a wagon near Venice while her professional father and mother were on tour, she, "Light of the Roman Stage," died trouping. She was on her farewell tour of the U. S. She had been giving only two performances a week, but the rigors of the American Winter and the ubiquitous devotion which was pressed upon her, finally shattered her spent body. In Boston the Italians knelt in the streets to kiss her skirts...
...glory and tragedy of Duse's life centered on Gabriele D'Annunzio, with whose name hers is linked forever. Many considered her the greatest actress of her day; others ranked her second to Sarah Bernhardt. In Italy, she was supreme...
...will be recalled by old playgoers that just before Mine. Eleanors Duse was playing her first season in Little Lord Fauntleroy, Harry Pratt was playing the part of a girl in the Pudding. Studious application to his art has done a lot for Pratt, and he is now cast for the female lead in "Who's Who". He will probably not open in the Boston performances, where the Watch and Ward Society, though quite, is still looking out for the morals of the young. But he is grand...
...sketches are grouped ingenuously under two heads?"Enthusiasm" and "Resentments"; and there trip from the pages as variegated a group of characters as ever graced an Actors' Benefit: De Pachmann, Irving Berlin, Bernhardt, Neysa McMein, Booth Tarkington, Maeterlinck, "F. P. A." Mr. Woollcott burns incense at antithetical altars: Duse of the beautiful hands and the voice of moonlit magic, and in the very next chapter, Charles Chaplin, who "does not rattle around even in the word 'genius'"; and Elsie Janis, upon whom he has these many years kept "an often startled but always affectionate...
Alexander Woollcott: "Miss Weir gallantly stormed a role that required at least a Duse . . . She needs voice training and experience. Time will inform her how to pronounce 'courage,' for instance, and will gently suggest that an actress making her debut in an emotional role would do well to wash her hands...