A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901, Volume 3Dodd, Mead, 1903 |
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A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 ..., Volume 3 Thomas Allston Brown Visualização integral - 1903 |
A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 ..., Volume 3 Thomas Allston Brown Visualização integral - 1903 |
A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 ..., Volume 3 Thomas Allston Brown Visualização integral - 1903 |
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acted afternoon Agnes Agnes Booth Alice America American début Annie appeared April 17 Arthur Bell Blanche Booth burlesque Camille Capt cast Charles Chas Clara commenced Davenport E. H. Sothern Edward Edwin Edwin Booth Emily Emma Fanny Fanny Davenport Faust Florence Frank Fred Frederick George Gilbert given Grace Harry Hattie Helen Henry Herbert house was closed J. H. Ryley Jack James Jean de Reszke Jennie Joseph Julia Juliet Kate Lady Laura Lewis Lillian Lillian Russell Lizzie Louis Louise Mabel manager March 12 March 23 Marie Marion matinée matinée Feb matinée Jan matinée March Maud Maurice Barrymore Minnie Miss Mlle Morris Nellie night performance played produced reopened Reszke Richard Robert Robson Romeo Rose Coghlan Russell season closed seen Smith stage Stuart Stuart Robson sung theatre was closed Thomas title rôle took a benefit Wallack Walter week William Wilson York
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Página 107 - You would like to compliment me upon an honorable life. As I look back upon that life it seems to me that it would have been absolutely impossible for me to have led any other. In this I have, perhaps, been mercifully helped more than are many of my more beautiful sisters in art.
Página 108 - I had already, though so young, been brought face to face with necessity. I found life sadly real and intensely earnest ; and in my ignorance of other ways of study, I resolved to take therefrom my text and my watchword ; to be thoroughly in earnest, intensely in earnest, in all my thoughts and in all my actions, whether in my profession or out of it, became my one single idea. And I honestly believe herein lies the secret of my success in life. I do not believe that any great success in any art...
Página 107 - I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you. Gentlemen, the heart has no speech; its only language is a tear or a pressure of the hand, and words very feebly convey or interpret its emotions. Yet I would beg you to believe that in the three little words I now speak, 'I thank you,' there are heart depths which I should fail to express better, though I should use a thousand other words.
Página 108 - ... single idea. And I honestly believe herein lies the secret of my success in life. I do not believe that any great success in any art can be achieved without it. " I say this to the beginners in my profession, and I am sure all the associates in my art, who have honored me with their presence on this occasion, will indorse what I say in this. Art is an absolute mistress ; she will not be coquetted with or slighted ; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs....
Página 108 - ... my main help ! I do not now say farewell to you in the usual sense of the word. In making my final representations upon the mimic scene, in the various cities of the country, I have reserved to myself the right of meeting you again — where you have made me believe that I give you the pleasure, which I receive myself at the same time — at the reading desk.
Página 171 - In 1892 was elected to the Legislature of the State of California; in January, 1894, was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of California; was elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses.
Página 406 - A New Way to Pay Old Debts," and the principal character in "The Iron Chest.
Página 107 - I thank you,' there are heart depths which I should fail to express better, though I should use a thousand other words. I thank you, gentlemen, for the great honor you have offered me. I thank you, not only for myself, but for my whole profession, to which, through and by me, you have paid this very graceful compliment. If the few words I am about to say savor of egotism or vainglory, you will, I am sure, pardon me, inasmuch as I am here only to speak of myself. You would seem to compliment me upon...
Página 419 - It occupied a lot, fifty feet in width, on the west side of Fourth Avenue, between Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth streets, adjoining the Academy of Design.
Página 444 - Guildenstern, Lawrence Hanley; Osric, Charles Koehler; Marcellus, Edwin H. Vanderfelt; Bernardo, Herbert Kelcey; Francisco, Frank Mordaunt; First Actor, Joseph Wheelock; Second Actor, Milnes Levick; First Gravedigger, Joseph Jefferson; Second Gravedigger...