Showing posts with label actors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label actors. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Sarah Bernhardt's Bath

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1901 The youthfulness and vivacity of the famous French actress, Sarah Bernhardt, have been the wonder and admiration of the public for many...

A Nervy Museum Manager

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1901 Sarah Bernhardt said that one night during a visit to America when she was playing "Jeanne d'Arc," she hurt her knee with...
Monday, April 7, 2008

Took a Mean Advantage

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1901 A supernumerary in Richard Mansfield's company who had been, to use a Scotch phrase, continuously and continually "heckled...
Tuesday, April 1, 2008

The Combustible Clive

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1910 As long ago as the middle of the eighteenth century, a famous Georgian actress, Mrs. Kitty Clive, felt the call of the nerves commonly ...
Friday, February 22, 2008

Glasses for Players

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1910 A recent instance of American ingenuity is afforded by the device of an optician for the relief of stage folk afflicted with defective ...
Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Playhouses of the Past

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1905 An interesting picture of the stage of our forefathers was drawn by Sir Henry Irving during an address delivered in Bath, England, at t...
Friday, June 1, 2007

Tango Dances Drive 'Em Mad

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1914 New York, Jan. 1. — The extent of the present dancing madness is shown in no manner more vividly than the way in which many society wom...
Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Theda Bara Says She is Going To Quit Vamping

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1920 Famous Movie Vampire Says Everybody is Some Sort of a Vamp But She is Tired of the Business New York — Theda Bara, she of celluloid fam...
Friday, April 20, 2007

Instant Messaging Helps Actor Name His Price

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1903 The coolness and self-control which have always been two of John Drew's most marked qualities, both off and on the stage, stood him...
Thursday, April 5, 2007

Gambling Raid, Arrests at Majestic Cigar Store

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Des Moines, Iowa, 1909-- 3 ARRESTED IN GAMBLING RAID Police Descend On Pretty Game In Basement In a raid last night in the basement of the M...

Actor Sues Movie Concern

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1920-- Capt. Robert Warwick Demands $525,644 for Breach of Contract NEW YORK, N.Y., May 20. -- Capt. Robert Warwick, motion picture star and...