Memories of a Manager: Reminiscences of the Old Lyceum and of Some Players of the Last Quarter CenturyDoubleday, Page, 1911 - 235 էջ |
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Memories of a Manager: Reminiscences of the Old Lyceum and of Some Players ... Daniel Frohman Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1911 |
Memories of a Manager: Reminiscences of the Old Lyceum and of Some Players ... Daniel Frohman Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1911 |
Memories of a Manager: Reminiscences of the Old Lyceum and of Some Players ... Daniel Frohman Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1911 |
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Էջ 226 - Act I. Mr. and Mrs. Telfer's Lodgings, at No. 2 Brydon Crescent, Clerkenwell. May. Act II. At Sir William Gower's, in Cavendish Square June. Act III. Again in Brydon Crescent. December. Act IV. On the stage of the Pantheon Theatre. A few days later. Period. — Somewhere in the early sixties.
Էջ 63 - Wells ' will have become nothing to me ! No, many and many a night you will see me in the house, looking down at you from the Circle — me and my husband ARTHUR. Yes, yes, certainly ! ROSE. And if you send for me I'll come behind the curtain to you, and sit with you and talk of bygone times, these times that end to-day. And shall I tell you the moments which will be the happiest to me in my life, however happy I may be with Arthur ? Why, whenever I find that I am...
Էջ 112 - There was only one cloud in Mrs. Kendal's career in America. When she enacted the part of Paula in The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, the critics not only deprecated her accepting a part of this kind but criticised her taste in appearing in a role so at variance with her career as a woman and an actress. She had been called the "British matron" of the drama because of the purity of her domestic life.
Էջ 224 - Maj.-Gen. Sir Robert Chichele, KCB Charles Walcot Edward Oriel Edward Morgan Maxime Demailly (His first appearance here) William Courtleigh Hon. Charles Denstroude Frank R. Mills Mr. St. Roche Felix Morris Lieut.-Col. Arthur Eave George Alison Mr. Adrian Mylls HS Taber Mr. Bartley Levan Henry Muller Mr. Percival Ord Seymour George Faulding John Findlay Fay Zuliani Mary Mannering Lady Ringstead Mrs. Charles Walcot Lady Chichele Mrs. Thomas Whiffen Annis Katharine Florence Mrs. St. Roche Norah Lamison...
Էջ vii - ... days or other similar cultured centers of other times. Mr. Frohman has long been one of the most successful of the managers who have practically controlled the American theater. Mr. Frohman's book will prove interesting to those people who like to read anecdotes and narrations about famous actors. It is "not a literary presentment of ideas and criticisms of the stage and its people, but a statement of facts, incidents, and experiences of stage life and some random observations, during twenty-five...
Էջ 42 - The result was one of the most striking situations we have in the American drama; for the Frenchman received the insult without the movement of a muscle. He stood rigid. Only a flash of the eye for an instant revealed his emotion. Then the audience saw his face grow red, and then pale. This was followed by the quiet announcement from the count that he would send his seconds to the Englishman. This exhibition of facial emotion betrayed by the visible rush of blood to the actor's face was frequently...
Էջ 221 - Island). (Fifteen months pass.) Act II. The Broken Bowl. Scene — Villa at Richmond. Act III. The Last Feast. Scene — Guisebury House, St. James
Էջ 105 - ... at increased prices, exceeded their receipts. So popular did Mr. and Mrs. Kendal become that they made five tours in this country during as many seasons. Mrs. Kendal won her audience in a moment after her first entrance on the first night of her American engagement. Her exuberant spirits, her hearty and captivating comedy qualities, the subtlety of her humour, her splendid poise and handsome appearance justified, to her new audiences, the splendid reputation that had preceded her. Her first entrance...
Էջ 225 - Tom Wrench Ferdinand Gadd James Telfer Augustus Colpoys Rose Trelawny Avonia Bunn Mrs. Telfer, (Miss Violet) Imogen Parrott, of the Royal Olympic Theatre Hilda Spong O'Dwyer, Prompter at the Pantheon Theatre Grant Stewart Edward J.
Էջ 88 - Writing again later, referring to my company, then planned for serious work — "I find you stronger — much — on the pathetic than on the comic arm. You have plenty of shade. I am, as you know, strongest on sunlight effects." As the play progressed I could not feel, as I told him on reading his elaborated scheme, convinced of its probable success. Later he wrote: " I want you to be more than satisfied — for my first effort on your stage must be one of my successes; that is essential to me,...