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Divorced. Ralph Modjeski, famed bridge builder, son of late tragedienne Helena Modjeska; from Felicie Benda Modjeska, whom he married in Poland in 1885; for "extreme cruelty"; in Reno...
...customer-and the situation has been clarified to the satisfaction of all. Acting honors were shared by Ferdinand Gottschalk, 61-longtime mummer, playwright (Nanette, The Love Letter)-as Preacher Wampus, and Actress Loftus, 53, onetime variety actress, music hall singer, who once trouped with Sir Henry Irving, Madame Modjeska, Edward H. Sothern, William Faversham. Part of Lost Sheep's revenue or deficit will go into or come out of the pocket of Musicomedian Jack Donahue, a backer of the entertainment...
...cents. With a recommendation from Phineas Taylor Barnum, a family friend, he secured his first regular part, that of an aged Negro, in a melodrama at the old Philadelphia Museum (1877). He has since appeared in 325 plays, directing 33 of them. He was leading man for Mme. Modjeska (see p. 44), once supported Edwin Booth. His daughter, Cornelia Otis Skinner, is a famed monologist. One of Actor Skinner's chief rivals in the impersonation of old men is his friend George Arliss (see p. 69). Famed Skinner roles: Richelieu, The Harvester, The Honor of the Family, Kismet...
...great builder of bridges is Ralph Modjeski and honored last week with his sixth scientific medal. But, except for his own stubborn leaning to engineering and his fond mother's indulgence, he might have been a musician or actor. For his mother was the late great tragedienne Helena Modjeska, and he was her only son. He played in the green rooms of Europe while she enacted the rolling romantic tragedies of the 1860s and '70s. In 1876 personal tragedies forced her to go to raw California as a ranch developer. Almost forgotten became her husband, Gustav Modrzejewski...
Died. Hermann Sudermann, 71, famed German dramatist & novelist, whose tragedy Heimat (Magda) was played by Modjeska, Duse, Mrs. Fiske; from apoplexy and pneumonia; in Berlin...