Word: modjeska
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...luxury. Their lovers were lords or poets and their love affairs were not casual encounters but tragedies as poignant and improbable as those through which they sighed and fainted on the stage. Even their indiscretions possessed grandeur and all their daring only added to their dignity. Thus with Bernhardt, Modjeska, Rejane, Duse, Rehan and thus with Ellen Terry, who, a Dame of the Grand Order of the British Empire, the last of her peers, died last week, at 80, in an old house near the tiny town of Small Hythe, England...
...role) ; husband of four successive actresses: Marie Sheldon (1881-93*), Charlotte Behrens (1894-98), Marie Booth Russell (1900-11), Genevieve Hamper (1912-); in Atlantic Highlands, N. J. Born in Scotland, educated in Ireland, trained in England, he was first acclaimed in the U. S. when he appeared with Helena Modjeska in Romeo and Juliet...
Boston has created a name for itself by showing extreme reluctancy to allow any musical show, good or bad, to leave town. The name of Jack Donahue would cause a riot where Modjeska and the Barrymores doing card tricks would not even excite a ripple. Small favors should be accepted gratefully; certainly there is an absence of really good drama but there are arid spots in every menu. Announcement of the coming of a Shakespearean company for a month's stay should hearten the gloomy and serve as an indicator, perhaps, for the future months. In the meantime...
...commonplace objects and the constancy of spirit which keeps attachments with fine people inviolate in their highest mood. Deathly poor and dying bitterly, long after her bright New York days, she spent gold pieces, hoarded in an old glove, that masses might be said for her gracious friend, Madame Modjeska, years dead...
...performance in the famous place. Under the huge chandelier that once had gravely lighted the 3,000 elegants in hoop-skirts and tight trousers who danced there one memorable night (Oct. 12, 1860) under the eyes of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales? upon the stage where Patti sang, where Modjeska triumphed, where Edwin Booth, Salvini, Lawrence Barrett, John McCullough, Campanini, Ole Bull, sang or spoke or played, white-haired Otis Skinner, actor, made a little speech. He spoke well, with that fine courtliness, which distinguishes actors and field marshals in old age. But the people in the stalls and boxes...