Word: eliza
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Monroe married Miss Eliza Kortwright of New York. This was his only marriage...
...Chairman, R. D. A. McKnight, Eliza Bacon; R. W. Heizer, Alice Harris; J. H. Courtney, Frances Courtney; R. F. Murphy, Dorothy Martin; D. H. Courtney...
...evening to an enthusiastic audience. There was a slight smell of fresh paint about everything except the performance, which gave promise of a brilliant season. Two of the principal roles were acted by Mr. Clive and Mr. Wingfield, who had done them almost as well before. Miss Willard played Eliza Dolittle with originality and grace. She was not able to make her flower-girl accent sufficiently distinct, except in the first scene, and this was perhaps the only serious flaw in her interpretation. Miss Willard is personally charming and an actress of considerable merit, who plays with feeling as well...
...Alfred Dolittle, "ruined" and "intimidated" by the change, which introduces to him fifty unsuspected relatives, who "touch" him where he touched others before, in the pocket book, sinks into despair at the loss of his freedom and the good old happy days of "undeserving poverty"; while the other, Eliza, inspired by some sort of ambition to rise, is left stranded in a very different manner...
...this is too bad--especially since Shakespeare probably said to himself: "By the jolly Eliza, here is a play, at last, but where can I get an actor? Ah--I must write some directions." And so he told how to trip it on the tongue, and how to avoid sawing the air too much, or tearing a passion to tatters...