Word: rehan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fritzi Scheff's story begins late in the year of 1900, when President McKinley was ordering events in Washington, when the British were fighting the Boers in South Africa. In Manhattan that year, Bernhardt and Coquelin were playing in repertoire. Mrs. Leslie Carter was Zaza and Ada Rehan was the talk of the town as Sweet Nell of Old Drury. At the opera it was the "Golden Age." Sembrich was singing and Fames, Ternina, Melba and the de Reszkés. It was before the time of Caruso, Fremstad and Tetrazzini. It was way back in the year...
...were lords or poets and their love affairs were not casual encounters but tragedies as poignant and improbable as those through which they sighed and fainted on the stage. Even their indiscretions possessed grandeur and all their daring only added to their dignity. Thus with Bernhardt, Modjeska, Rejane, Duse, Rehan and thus with Ellen Terry, who, a Dame of the Grand Order of the British Empire, the last of her peers, died last week, at 80, in an old house near the tiny town of Small Hythe, England...
...have taken him longer to read. Merely a list of his sitters is a comprehensive British and U. S. Hall of Fame of the last half century. Statesmen like Woodrow Wilson, John Hay; men of affairs like Lord Ribblesdale, Theodore Roosevelt; actors, actresses like Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson, Ada Rehan, Ellen Terry; authors, educators, beauties, generals, industrialists. Though he announced in 1903 that he would paint no more portraits, he occasionally broke his rule, twice to make it possible for future generations to scrutinize the incomparable countenance of John D. Rockefeller...
...their parents' several talents. Robert M. Jr. is his father's junior partner in politics. Philip is carrying on in his father's shoes as a lawyer. Fola, after an apprenticeship in the woman suffrage movement, went on the stage, played ingenue parts with Ada Rehan, played with Leo Ditrichstein, and then suddenly left the stage to marry playwright George Middleton. The youngest, Mary, studied...
...Augustin Daly engaged Skinner to play in his famed company. The great manager is tenderly pictured in all his quaintness; his whims are described, his essentially city character and strong religious tendency. Mr. Skinner found himself associated with Ada Rehan, John Drew, James Lewis, Mrs. G. H. Gilbert. After a tour of the provinces, the company made a successful invasion of England, Germany, France...