Word: salvini
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...Under the huge chandelier that once had gravely lighted the 3,000 elegants in hoop-skirts and tight trousers who danced there one memorable night (Oct. 12, 1860) under the eyes of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales? upon the stage where Patti sang, where Modjeska triumphed, where Edwin Booth, Salvini, Lawrence Barrett, John McCullough, Campanini, Ole Bull, sang or spoke or played, white-haired Otis Skinner, actor, made a little speech. He spoke well, with that fine courtliness, which distinguishes actors and field marshals in old age. But the people in the stalls and boxes did not need to hear...
...later years at rehearsals the festival productions, representing roles as Kundry, Isolde, Sieglinde or Brünilde, my mind often reverted to that moment in Venice. Her impersonation was of ancient grandeur; I have seen its like but once upon stage: the acting of Othello by Salvini, who was seventy years old at the time. But the mark of Siegfried's own character is equally well displayed in his Recollections. This short extract quoted in the book from his diary is sufficient evidence of an affirmative personality...
Eleanora Duse, Italian actress, is generally conceded a solitary niche of honor at the forefront of the players of the world. So amazing is her art that she will stand in shadowy greatness with Mrs. Siddons, David Garrick, Salvini, Ellen Terry, Sarah Bernhardt. She plays only in Italian...
...grace and beauty as a fancy dress ball, and as replete with good acting as the legitimate. The cast is the largest and strongest Mr. Hoyt has ever organized and embraces many prominent people, notably, Miss Belle Archer, leading lady with Nat Goodwin, E. H. Southern and the late Salvini; Clairiesse Agnew, who created such a sensation during the New York run; Chas. Stanley, for whom the part of Napoleon was especially written; Geo. Schiller, a Boston favorite and others to the number of 50 artists...
...tfTHE repertoire for Alexander Salvini's second and last week at the Hollis has been arranged as follows: Monday, "Don Caesar de Bazan;" Tuesday, "Friend Fritz," and "Rustic Chivalry;" Wednesday night and Saturday matinee, "Ruy Blas;" Thursday and Saturday evening, "Three Guardsmen;" Friday night, "Hamlet...