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Jessie Bond wrote, The stage was at a low ebb, Elizabethan glories and Georgian artificialities had alike faded into the past, stilted tragedy and vulgar farce were all the would-be playgoer had to choose from, and the theatre had become a place of evil repute to the righteous British householder .... A first effort to bridge the gap was made by the German Reed Entertainers.
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As Jessie Bond wrote later:
These included George Grossmith, the principal comic ; Rutland Barrington, the lyric baritone ; Richard Temple, the bass-baritone ; and Jessie Bond, the mezzo-soprano soubrette.
* 1853 – Jessie Bond, English singer and actress ( d. 1942 )
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With only a week to go before opening night, Carte hired concert singer Jessie Bond to play Cousin Hebe.
In November, he returned to America with Gilbert, Sullivan and a company of strong singers, including J. H. Ryley as Sir Joseph, Blanche Roosevelt as Josephine, Alice Barnett as Little Buttercup, Furneaux Cook as Dick Deadeye, Hugh Talbot as Ralph Rackstraw and Jessie Bond as Cousin Hebe.
On 27 May 2009, David Leveaux as director opened the latest London production of Arcadia at the Duke of York's Theatre with Samantha Bond, Nancy Carroll, Jessie Cave, Trevor Cooper, Sam Cox, Lucy Griffiths, Tom Hodgkins, Hugh Mitchell, Neil Pearson, George Potts, Dan Stevens and Ed Stoppard.
Jessie Bond, who was to open the show with a solo song alone on stage, finally said to him, " For Heaven's sake, Mr. Gilbert, go away and leave me alone, or I shan't be able to sing a note!
W. H. Denny | Denny ( Wilfred ) and Jessie Bond | Bond ( Phœbe ), 1888
Gilbert and the actor had a famous exchange during rehearsals for The Mikado about an improvised bit of " business " in which Jessie Bond pushed Grossmith, as they kneeled before the Mikado, and he rolled completely over.
Parts of the role were lowered in 1884 for mezzo-soprano Jessie Bond.
Jessie Bond, Camille Everardi, Erminia Frezzolini, Jenny Lind, Mathilde Marchesi, Christina Nilsson, Julia Ettie Crane, Julius Stockhausen, Marie Tempest, and Henry Wood were among his pupils.
* Arcadia ( 27 May – 12 September 2009 ) by Tom Stoppard starring Samantha Bond, Nancy Carroll, Jessie Cave, Trevor Cooper, Sam Cox, Lucy Griffiths, Tom Hodgkins, Hugh Mitchell, Neil Pearson, George Potts, Dan Stevens and Ed Stoppard.
Unhappily for Gilbert, three of his usual principal players, George Grossmith, Richard Temple and Jessie Bond, who he had originally thought would play the title character, the prince and the princess, all left the company before rehearsals began for The Grand Duke, and so he reduced the size of these roles, further changing his original conception.
Jessie Bond wrote that by the middle of the 19th century, " The stage was at a low ebb, Elizabethan glories and Georgian artificialities had alike faded into the past, stilted tragedy and vulgar farce were all the would-be playgoer had to choose from, and the theatre had become a place of evil repute ".
Jessie and wrote
" A model of reinvention, author Jessie Carney Smith wrote that " Janet has continued to test the limits of her transformative power ", receiving accolades in music, film and concert tours throughout the course of her career.
In response, his wife Jessie Dwight wrote the following poem about Gurdjieff:
In the privately-published Third Series of writings, Gurdjieff wrote of Orage and his wife Jessie, "... his romance had ended in his marrying the saleswoman of ' Sunwise Turn ,' a young American pampered out of all proportion to her position ..."
In January 1884 Camille's mother wrote to Jessie confirming the arrangement that Jessie would lodge with the Claudel family for 200 francs a month.
Jessie and stage
Jessie Alice " Jessica " Tandy ( 7 June 1909 – 11 September 1994 ) was a British-born stage and film actress, who spent most of her 67-year career in the United States.
This music hall is where the builder's twin grand-daughters ( Bessie and Jessie Pickens ) once performed as opera singers under the stage name " The Abbot Sisters ".
They later divorced, and he married an actress, Jessie Boyce, whose stage name was Jessie Haynes.
Hartnell became popular with younger stars of stage and screen, and went on to dress such names as Gladys Cooper and Elsie Randolph, later gaining as clients Gertrude Lawrence ( also a client of Edward Molyneux ), Jessie Matthews, Merle Oberon, Evelyn Laye, Anna Neagle and even Alice Delysia and Mistinguett, two French stars impressed by the young Englishman's genius.
After their divorce, he married the actress Jessie Taylor, also known by her stage name, Vera.
Jessie adopted her stage name Maxine Elliott in 1889, making her first appearance in 1890 in The Middleman.
Jessie Smither ( 25 August 1885 – 20 October 1960 ), best known by her stage name Denise Orme, was an English music hall singer, actress and musician who appeared regularly at the Alhambra and Gaiety Theatres in London in the early years of the 20th century.
In addition to his television and film work, Juliani frequently appears on stage, both in Vancouver ( where he has earned multiple nominations and wins for Vancouver theatre's Jessie Awards ) and elsewhere.
Jessie and was
Again among those jubilantly reunited bunkmates, I was shy with Jessie and acted as I had during those early Saturday mornings when we all seemed to be playing for effect, to be detached and unconcerned with the girls who were properly our dates but about whom, later, in the privacy of our bunks, we would think in terms of the most elaborate romance.
It was at that party that, finally overcoming my timidity, inspired by tales only half-understood and overheard among older boys, I asked Jessie to spend New Year's Eve with me.
Damien Echols was sentenced to death, Jessie Misskelley, Jr. was sentenced to life imprisonment plus two 20-year sentences, and Jason Baldwin was sentenced to life imprisonment.
At the time of their arrests, Jessie Misskelley, Jr. was 17 years old, Jason Baldwin was 16 years old, and Damien Echols was 18 years old.
On June 3 police interrogated Jessie Misskelley Jr. Misskelley, whose IQ was reported to be 72 ( making him borderline intellectual functioning ), was questioned alone ; his parents were not present during the interrogation.
White was born in Mount Vernon, New York, the youngest child of Samuel Tilly White, a piano manufacturer, and Jessie Hart.
It was on the sets of Dementia 13 that he met his future wife Eleanor Jessie Neil.
His father, Jessie Hoover, was a blacksmith and farm implement store owner who was of German ( Pfautz, Wehmeyer ) and German-Swiss ( Huber, Burkhart ) descent.
The title role went to Rod La Rocque, a top star of the silent cinema, whose career was on the wane following the advent of the talkies, and the lead actress was Jessie Royce Landis.
Madden's scholarly, Middle English edition of the poem was followed in 1898 by the first Modern English translation-a prose version by literary scholar Jessie L. Weston.
Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia on December 28, 1856 as the third of four children of Joseph Ruggles Wilson ( 1822 – 1903 ) and Jessie Janet Woodrow ( 1826 – 1888 ).
Close was a founder and is chairperson of BringChange2Mind, a US campaign to eradicate the stigma and discrimination surrounding mental illness, supporting her sister Jessie who has bipolar illness.
Derek Parfit was born in Chengdu, China to Norman and Jessie Parfit ( née Browne ), both medical doctors who had moved to Western China in order to teach preventive medicine in missionary hospitals.
One of the passages in the letter revolves around a serial necrophiliac and murderer named Raymond Andrew Joubert making his way through Maine ; it turns out he was the Space Cowboy, confirmed when Jessie confronted him in a court hearing and Joubert mimicked Jessie's arm positions while she was in the handcuffs.
In King's subsequent novel, Dolores Claiborne, it is revealed that the title main character shared a telepathic connection with Jessie Burlingame on two occasions, first during the solar eclipse when Jessie was assaulted by her father, and later when she is handcuffed to the bed.
Tex Avery was born to George Walton Avery ( b. June 8, 1867-d. January 14, 1935 ) and the former Mary Augusta " Jessie " Bean ( 1886 – 1931 ) in Taylor, Texas.
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