Word: eleonora
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...confounded those who declare that no company can give grand opera in the U. S. at $3 a ticket and avoid bankruptcy (TIME, Oct. 1, 1923). He has kept other irons simmering. He managed an unsuccessful English light-opera company, built around De Wolf Hopper; he managed the eternal Eleonora Duse in her last U. S. tour; the incomparable Anna Pavlowa has been under his direction. Next year, he will manage the Manhattan Police Band...
...tribute in the name of the Chamber to the memory of the late Signora Eleonora Duse (TiME...
This was the unusual message sent to Prince Gelasio Caetani, Italian Ambassador to the U. S., by Premier Benito Mussolini; for seldom it is that a Government takes official cognizance of an actress, even so great a tragedienne as the late Signora Eleonora Duse (TIME, April 28, MILESTONES...
...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...
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...