Word: janes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jane - But Needs America's Uncanny Showman The horn of France's theatrical plenty is to be opened and two of the choicest bits transferred for brief consumption in America. Réjane, tragedienne who has succeeded Bernhardt in the first place in the hearts of France, will come over within a year; next September comes the Folies Bergeres, parent of our own Follies, Scandals, Passing Show, Vanities...
...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...
Gabrielle Réjane is nearly 70. Since her great success in Meilhac's Ma Camarade in 1883, she has been a leading figure in the French theatre. She mirrors the expressive soul of France, seemingly the essence of vivacity and animation. She has toured America several times, making her most notable success in Madame Sans Gene...
France believes that Réjane can surpass Duse. This she will emphatically not do unless her managers persuade Morris Gest to act as her American representative. It is the uncanny showmanship of Gest, fully as much as the ability of Duse, that has spelled success for her in such amazing fashion...
...John Ervine. Listed among their most notable successes are the following, a list which any financially-minded manager might inspect greedily and which many a layman will recognize with the quickening touch of well remembered evenings: John Ferguson, by St. John Ervine The Faithful, by John Masefield Jane Clegg, by St. John Ervine The Dance of Death, by August...