Word: janauschek
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...names of such actors as Edwin Booth, Lawrence Barrett are freely sprinkled over the ensuing pages. Humorous stories are told of missed cues, scenic mishaps. Madame Janauschek, temperamental, egotistical, flashes meteorically through the pages, is made to live again in her great roles and her off-stage tantrums. There are many amusing episodes of Shakespearean productions; atrocious costumes and absurd scenery failed to detract from the serious and pseudo-scholarly performances of the bombastic hams...