Word: modjeska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Joseph Harry Benrimo, 67, actor-dramatist, co-author of The Yellow Jacket; in Manhattan. In the 1890s and early 1900s he played supporting roles with Modjeska, James O'Neill, Mrs. Leslie Carter, William Faversham...
Bernhardt, Modjeska, Booth, Salvini, Joseph Jefferson once declaimed and strutted before Central City's miners and bonanza kings. When General Grant came to town, a street was paved with $12,000 worth of silver bricks. Then the end of the mining rush left Central City nearly deserted. Its resurrection began when descendants of the original builder gave the Opera House to the University of Denver. The theater was refurbished, its hickory chairs restored, and the curtain went up on Lillian Gish in Camille, designed and directed by Robert Edmond Jones...