Word: dusing
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...DUSE-Returning after a lifetime of public deification and personal unhappiness to display in a distant land the talents of the greatest actress in the world. In Italian...
...South; but she is not by any manner of means provincial. She was educated, being a delicate child, at home and at private schools. Yet she is by no means a woman secluded from life. She has wide contacts and interests. She talked as intelligently and appreciatively of Eleonora Duse's performance as she did of her favorite dog. Here is a really important figure in the history of American letters; for she has preserved for us the quality and the beauty of her real South...
France, it seems, has lately become cognizant of the sensational success of Eleonora Duse, Italian tragedienne, at whose feet some $10,000 worth of homage is being thrown two afternoons a week. This, reflect French managers, is an invaluable advertisement for Italy. "We, too, shall enter the international advertising game. Réjane shall go." Last week a representative of the French legation in Washington went quietly up to Manhattan and opened negotiations...
...ELEONORA DUSE-The greatest name in the world of the theatre retaining its compelling power by reason of a woman's ageless spirit...
...even the barriers of an unfamiliar tongue are broken by the uncanny force of Duse's personality. She might have been reciting passages from an Italian dictionary for all the audience cared. She held them breathless through four long acts of conversation unrelieved...