Word: modjeska
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...Johnston, the eldest, though speedily mastering his painting, cannot refuse a salaried part in Mary, Queen o' Scots at the Princess Theatre. Other engagements follow and the young actor begins meeting the great stage folk of the day-Charles Calvert, Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps (who trains him), Madame Modjeska, Author Charles Read amid a sea of manuscript in his study, Miss Ellen Terry in her gray-blue drawing-room with ribbons of incense smoke wreathing the Venus of Milo...
...greatest engineering feats of modern times, picked by Ralph Modjeski, famed Polish civil engineer, and son of Helena Modjeska, the tragedienne (Popular Science Monthly, June), include two canals, two bridges, and two dams...
Forbes-Robertson was born in London on January 16, 1853, and made his debut 21 years later in "Mary Stuart." From 1880-95 he appeared with such artists as the Bancrofts, Madame Modjeska, Irving, Mary Anderson, and Sir John Hare; at the end of that period he opened the Lyceum Theatre, London under his own management. His plays with Henry Irving included "Much Ado About Nothing." "Henry VIII," and "King Arthur." The present American tour is his sixth the first being with Mary Anderson in 1885; and the others following in 1889, 1902, 1905, and 1909-10. His most famous...
...Madame Modjeska was brought out by Mr. Barrett at the Court Theatre, and Mr. Forbes-Robertson was chosen in support her in the leading roles, among them. Armand Duval, Don Carlos, Leicester in "Mary Stuart," and Romeo in which "the modern English stage has not seen his equal." The year after he painted a splendid portrait of Madame Modjeska...
...clock this evening, in Sever 11, Mr. Copeland will lecture on "Hamlet on the Stage." The players discussed will be Edwin Booth, Mr. Wilson Sarrett, Sir Henry Irving, Mr. E. H. Sothern, M. Mounet Sully, Mr. Beerbohm Tree, Mr. E. S. Willard, Mme. Modjeska, and Miss Terry...