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...great playwright and, unlike Shakespeare, as a great actor too. It was in his spirit that the new theatrical enterprise got under way. State funds offered actors great prestige, security and high incomes, and through the centuries Le Françiase has presented such alltime greats as Talma, Rachel, Mounet-Sully and Bernhardt. But where state funds are involved, so are political favors. In the early part of the 20th century, the mistress of an influential politician had a better chance to get into the Comédie Française than a talented actress. In unimaginative hands, the great...
...ARLETTE MOUNET...
...debt. Taunted throughout youth for his bastardy, his works contained preachments against adultery, seduction. He gained most fame from his plays (La Dame anx Camclias, Idces de Madame Aubray, La Femmc de Claude, L'Etrangcrc) in which such great actors as Sarah Bernhardt, Benoit Constant Coquelin and Jean Mounet-Sully appeared. In 1874 he was elected to the French Academy, a distinction which his father never achieved...
...Copeland will give a lecture on "'Hamlet' on the Modern Stage," this evening in Sever 11, at 8 o'clock. The Hamlets of Edwin Booth, Sir Henry Irving, M. Mounet-Sully, Mr. Beerbohm Tree, and Mr. E. H. Southern will be briefly considered. The lecture will be open only to members of the University...
...LECTURE. "Hamlet" on the Modern Stage. Mr. Copeland. Sever 11, 8 P. M. The Hamlets of Edwin Booth, Sir Henry Irving, M. Mounet-Sully, Mr. Beerbohm, Tree, and Mr. E. H. Sothern will be briefly considered in this lecture...