Word: molde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...highest achievement in emotional act ing. She was handicapped with an appearance which, while preserving its youth with phenomenal tenacity, was never strictly beautiful. Her art was not one of interpretation. In stead of losing herself in a charac ter - Camille, for example - she used it simply as a mold in which to pour her own glowing vitality. She was born 78 years ago. Her father was French, her mother of mixed Dutch and Jewish origin. Her first great triumph came at the age of 22, as Cordelia in King Lear, at the Theatre Francois. Later, feeling her intense individuality...
...gift of Sir Robert Horne, Chancellor of the Exchequer through Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, M. P. It is over five inches in diameter and covered with the most exquisite detail. This is of such minute detail that only gutta-percha impressions have been taken from the original mold...