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...Eleanora Duse, Italian actress, former friend of Gabriele d'Annun-zio : " Going to England, ill, and with a letter from the Italian government asking that I be shown every possible courtesy, I was cross-examined and forced to secure a permit from the Ministry of Labor before I was permitted to enter...
Among the more important revivals of the London season are Pinero's The Gay Lord Quex and Sudermann's Magda. The latter was played by Sarah Bernhardt in 1895, and Duse, then in London, put it on a few days later. Within a year Mrs. Pat Campbell also gave it, and the records of these three performances were preserved for posterity by Bernard Shaw in his Dramatic Opinions and Essays...
...Young, critic for The New Republic, observes the current drama with a more leisurely eye than the critics of the daily press. His speculations are always interesting, frequently fundamental. Among other phases of the drama under his analysis are acting in general, that of Ben Ami, Charles Chaplin and Duse in particular, the cinema, the effect of poetic drama on the actor, the Theatre Guild's production of He Who Gets Slapped. THE TYRANNY OF POWER - D. Thomas Curtin. Little, Brown ($2.00). This book is valuable chiefly as a study of melancholy conditions existing in the West Virginia coal...
...monotony of effect, in conventional characterization, and an anticlimactic last act. Mr. Knoblauch is fortunate to have his play in the hands of Miss Ashwell, who is new to our stage. Her admirable performance was marked by a certain suggestive repression that recalled forcibly the art and methods of Duse...
...year. Since then it has been given in several of the leading cities in this country, drawing large houses, especially in Chicago. Owing to its popularity it has been translated into French, German, Italian, Russian, and Hungarian. On her tour through South America this season Madame Duse will play the leading role in the Italian translation...