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Professor Morris, holding his manuscript, sat searching through one pocket after another with a mournful persistence. Finally Evelyn noted him and asked what was the matter. "I have lost my reading glasses," he said. "Can't we find them for you?" asked Modjeska politely. She started to look on the rugs. "They are not here," said the Professor.
Now that sense of isolation, of the mere spectator or the traveler gazing from the windows of the hurrying train that sense returned. But she fought against the feeling it gave her. That evening they went to the theater to see Modjeska in "Magda." Susan had never been in a real theater. The only approach to a playhouse in Sutherland was Masonic Hall.
A woman is allowed much less freedom of posture than a man. He may change his position as he likes, and loll or lounge, cross his legs, or even nurse his foot if he pleases; but a woman must have grace and dignity; in every gesture she must be "ladylike." Any one who has seen a great actress like Modjeska sit down will know what an acquired grace it is.
When the crowd had passed, my people assisted me to consciousness, but oh, my heart my heart! How can I tell?" She bid her face in her hands and shuddered. Modjeska clasped her in. other in her arms, murmuring loving words of comfort. In a moment the Princess looked up. "You can imagine our agony, Professor Morris, when we found that our baby was gone. She had been torn from me in the crowd.
Her Marie Stuart, too, was a beautiful and distinguished performance. Her Juliet had lovely moments, but I did not so much care for that, and her broken English interfered with the verse of Shakespeare. Some years ago I met Modjeska and she greeted me so warmly and sweetly, although she was very ill.
I have known rather intimately all the eminent English-speaking actors of my time from Henry Irving and Charles Wyndham to Edwin Booth and Joseph Jefferson, from Charlotte Cushman to Helena Modjeska. No people are quite so interesting as stage people. During nearly fifty years my life and the life of Joseph Jefferson ran close upon parallel lines.
Cleveland His Fondness for Cards Some Poker Stories The "Senate Game" Tom Ochiltree, Senator Allison and General Schenck Not long after Mr. Cleveland's marriage, being in Washington, I made a box party embracing Mrs. Cleveland, and the Speaker and Mrs. Carlisle, at one of the theaters where Madame Modjeska was appearing.
Cleveland His Fondness for Cards Some Poker Stories The "Senate Game" Tom Ochiltree, Senator Allison and General Schenck Not long after Mr. Cleveland's marriage, being in Washington, I made a box party embracing Mrs. Cleveland, and the Speaker and Mrs. Carlisle, at one of the theaters where Madame Modjeska was appearing.
Modjeska, who, though she is a Polish actress, lives in America and is associated with the American stage, made a great impression on me. She was exquisite in many parts, but in none finer than in "Adrienne Lecouvreur." Her last act electrified me. I have never seen it better acted, although I have seen all the great ones do it since.
"Are you acquainted with 'Camill'?" she asked me, with a trifle of sternness; and upon my hesitating, "the celebrated French drayma of 'Camill'," she repeated, with a trifle more of sternness. "Camill is the lady in it who dies of consumption. Leola recites the letter-and-coughing scene, Act Third. Mr. Patterson of Coloraydo Springs pronounces it superior to Modjeska."
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