Word: modjeska
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Miss Digge certainly did look sober, as she stood there in her "old gold" velvet dress, cut bias, and shirred all round, leaning against a bookcase just as she had seen Modjeska lean...
THOSE who attended the performances of Modjeska when she was here, a short time ago, will doubtless remember reading on their programmes an account of the palace car in which this gifted artist and her company travel. The most glowing descriptions of the Arabian Nights pale before it. Even the Prince of the Black Isles, who had so many charming young ladies devoted to him, never enjoyed the luxury of hanging up his clothes on a silver-plated hook, nor are we told that Aladdin's famous lamp was nickel-plated. The movements of genius are at all times interesting...
This company must be intending to leave the legitimate drama for pantomime, for nearly every article turns into something else, - generally into a bed. The fascinating columbine, Modjeska, sits during the daytime on a sofa which, with a wave of her wand, turns into a four-poster, while the noted harlequin, Manager H. H. Sargent, with a blow of his sword, turns some one of his numerous nickel-plated conveniences into a trundle...