Word: rosalinde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...record that she detested U. S. playgoers because they seemed generally to prefer the melancholy Booth. She nonetheless toured the U. S. with great success and sometimes sent her greetings to its citizens. Portia was her greatest role; her admirers bewail the fact that she never played Rosalind for whom her sharp features, her grace and gaiety and the instinctive good taste of her acting would so well have fitted her. Her association with Irving-with whom she played from 1878 to 1902-terminated in a quarrel which was never completely explained. Soon after they parted company, Terry became...
...lions and Nelson, still the fireplace sanctum under the stairs in St. James's Club, still Big Ben and Curzon Street, still the higgledy piggledy of Shepherds Market. There was still Mrs. Beddoes, charwoman these many years to that kind Miss Janet and her beautiful sister Miss Rosalind, poor and snobbish. And today, being the wedding, was a holiday, for Mrs. Beddoes was going inside, inside St. Margaret's, and not to watch as usual from outside the railings. No, "The Duke and Duchess of Romney request the pleasure of the company of Mrs. Beddoes on the occasion...
Janet had married not only this house in Halkin Street, but also Wintersmoon with its Minstrel's Gallery, and Queen Elizabeth's bed, its three ghosts, its Spanish walk. But to Rosalind, Wintersmoon was merely the depths of Wiltshire: old house half shut up, woods, ponds, peacocks, Salisbury Plain in the distance. So Janet lost Rosalind; and all that remained was a great emptiness. She could indeed have filled it with the traditional affairs of her mother-in-law the duchess-soup kitchens, canons, Agatha Bazaar-but much as she loved tradition, she was too modern for that...
...knew the bitterness of Janet's love for his son. But none of these were enough-none of them needed her. Then suddenly the death of her child pitched Wildherne into depths of morbidity from which only Janet could save him. And at the moment of his crisis, Rosalind, also in trouble, summoned her sister. At last Janet was needed; had, indeed, to choose between the two needs...
...Dorman, Chairman, and Alice Merrill; T. O. Brewster and Katharine Sanders; J. L. Harrison and Elsie Nicholson; J. P. Keyes and Dorothy Smith; Humphery Statter and Annie McIntosh; H. R. Thayer and Rosalind Newhall; R D. Whedon and Amy Wallcott...