Word: artists
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...press, we learn Muzzes Khin is about to publish a map of the course. As the artist will have some difficulty in following it, the usual crimson cover will have to be omitted on the score of expense...
...surprise, and her singing is worthy of serious opera. Her Clairette, Duchesse, and Boulotte are marked by a cleverness and finish which many more serious impersonations lack; in the last two roles, she has all the traditions of the diva Schneider. M. Capoul sings and acts like the perfect artist he is, - excellent as the lover Ange Pitou, Marasquin, or Piquillo, and equally so, in a widely different part, Falsanappa, the chief of brigands. Mlle. Angele has great beauty, a fair voice, and is an agreeable actress...
...maiden wondrous, whose loveliness artist could never limn...
THOSE who attended the performances of Modjeska when she was here, a short time ago, will doubtless remember reading on their programmes an account of the palace car in which this gifted artist and her company travel. The most glowing descriptions of the Arabian Nights pale before it. Even the Prince of the Black Isles, who had so many charming young ladies devoted to him, never enjoyed the luxury of hanging up his clothes on a silver-plated hook, nor are we told that Aladdin's famous lamp was nickel-plated. The movements of genius are at all times interesting...
...elastic nature of the company fits them admirably for travelling, as may be seen in the account of the arrangement of the "reception-room." This room is twenty-eight feet long, and contains sleeping accommodations for forty. Thus each artist must rest from his professional labors in a space about eight inches in breadth by eight and one half feet in length. They must be very unlike the dog in the riddle, who was let out at night and taken in in the morning...