Word: nell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Minnie Maddern Fiske, 64, was bora in New Orleans, daughter of Thomas W. Davey, theatrical manager. Aged 3, she appeared in Richard III; aged 15, she was starred with her own company. She has played Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Becky Sharp, Salvation Nell, many an Ibsen heroine. In 1890 she married theatrical director Harrison Grey Fiske who still stages her productions. Eight years ago she gave up tragic, wearing parts, but later rallied to play Ibsen's Ghosts. She wears no real furs or feathers, eats no flesh. In 1925 she said: "Society is so organized...
...year of 1900, when President McKinley was ordering events in Washington, when the British were fighting the Boers in South Africa. In Manhattan that year, Bernhardt and Coquelin were playing in repertoire. Mrs. Leslie Carter was Zaza and Ada Rehan was the talk of the town as Sweet Nell of Old Drury. At the opera it was the "Golden Age." Sembrich was singing and Fames, Ternina, Melba and the de Reszkés. It was before the time of Caruso, Fremstad and Tetrazzini. It was way back in the year of the now grandmotherly Louise Homer and of the Viennese...
...summary: ANDOVER HARVARD 1933 W. Kimball, O'Nell, l.e. r.e., Heath, Borden, Reisner, Davidson Jackson, l.t. r.t., Hardy, Hagaman, Alschuler Stebbins, l.g. r.g. Harter Frazier, c. c., Almy, Hallowell Gardner, Davis, r.g. l.g. Kidder Potter, R. Kimball, r.t. l.t., Fransco, Esterly Broaca, r.e. l.e., Barton, Saltonstall Brown, Williamson, q.b. q.b., Coburn, Woodworth, Scote Keesling, Berien, l.h.b. r.h.b., Cassidy, Adams, Adler Kling, r.h.b. l.h.b., Balley Wilson, f.b. f.b., Walcott Pell Stone...
...Miss Claire's stage reputation were informed in a flood of publicity material what sort of a Thisbe this was who had charmed their Pyramis. The secret of her success seemed compressed into the following grave statement by Miss Claire (in an "interview" where she was discussing Mistresses Nell Gwyn, Cleopatra, Lady Hamilton...
Young Love. She was the little girl who got wet in Orphans of the Storm and wore an arresting white dress in Nell Gwynne. That has nothing to do with a play called Young Love which opened in Manhattan last week, except that Dorothy Gish, 30, is back on the stage playing opposite her husband, James Rennie, and Lillian Gish is still in the movies and still unmarried...