item: #1 of 22 id: 11717 author: Robins, Edward title: The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield date: None words: 76102 flesch: 70 summary: In a succeeding paragraph the reader finds that a cherished nineteenth-century custom--the representing of a vast army by the employment of half-a-dozen ill-fed, unpainted supers--has at least the sanction of age: Another mechanical method of making great men, and adding dignity to kings and queens, is to accompany them with halberts and battle-axes. All that was mortal of Oldfield lay in state in the Jerusalem Chamber,[A] and then there followed an elaborate funeral, at which were present a host of great men, and the two sons of the deceased, Mr. Maynwaring and young Churchill. keywords: actors; actress; addison; anne; audience; author; betty; booth; cato; charles; cibber; colley; comedy; company; day; days; dear; death; drury; easy; english; face; fair; fine; footnote; friends; genius; gentleman; good; great; half; home; house; husband; ill; king; lady; lane; life; lord; love; man; men; mistress; mother; mrs; nance; new; night; oldfield; people; play; players; poet; poor; public; queen; rich; savage; scene; sense; set; sir; stage; steele; success; theatre; thought; time; town; tragedy; way; wilks; woman; world; years; young cache: 11717.txt plain text: 11717.txt item: #2 of 22 id: 12326 author: Terry, Ellen title: The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections date: None words: 122819 flesch: 82 summary: At any rate, he was free to take me to see Henry Irving act. Ellen Terry as Nance Oldfield Ellen Terry as Kniertje in The Good Hope Ellen Terry as Imogen Henry Irving as Becket Sir Henry Irving Ellen Terry as Rosamund in Becket Ellen Terry as Guinevere in King Arthur Olivia Miss Terry's Garden at Winchelsea Ellen Terry as Hermione in The Winter's Tale INTRODUCTION When I read the book, the biography famous, keywords: acting; actor; actress; america; audience; charles; child; children; company; course; day; days; dear; dress; ellen; end; eyes; face; father; friends; girl; good; hamlet; head; heart; henry; henry irving; home; house; illustration; juliet; kate; kean; kind; know; lady; left; life; little; london; long; look; love; lyceum; man; men; mind; miss; mother; mrs; new; night; old; parts; people; performance; place; play; playing; poor; portia; production; reade; real; room; scene; shakespeare; sir; splendid; sqq; stage; success; terriss; terry; theater; thing; thought; time; voice; way; white; woman; word; work; years; young cache: 12326.txt plain text: 12326.txt item: #3 of 22 id: 18860 author: Winter, William title: Shadows of the Stage date: None words: 75203 flesch: 63 summary: The ideal of Richard that was expressed by this actor did not materially differ from that which has been manifested by great tragic actors from Garrick to Booth. The men who were acting female characters upon the London stage when that institution was revived immediately after the Restoration were Kynaston, James Nokes, Angel, William Betterton, Mosely, and Floid. keywords: acting; action; actor; actress; american; aram; art; beauty; booth; character; charles; comedy; day; days; death; dramatic; edwin; effect; experience; falstaff; father; genius; good; grace; great; heart; henry; human; humour; ideal; irving; jefferson; john; king; lady; life; london; love; man; manner; mary; mind; moment; mrs; nature; new; old; passion; performance; persons; piece; play; portia; power; present; public; richard; scene; shakespeare; sir; soul; spirit; stage; story; theatre; thought; time; voice; way; woman; world; years; york cache: 18860.txt plain text: 18860.txt item: #4 of 22 id: 20085 author: James, Henry title: The Tragic Muse date: None words: 220762 flesch: 79 summary: Nick felt Nash could never surprise him any more save by mere plain perpetration. Nick felt himself catch the smile and all the reasons of it: they made up a charm to which he had perhaps not hitherto done justice--something of the impression he had received when younger from showy views of fine country-seats that had pressed and patted nature, as by the fat hands of benches of magistrates and landlords, into supreme respectability and comfort. keywords: actress; agnes; air; art; biddy; brother; care; carrã; carteret; case; companion; course; dallow; dashwood; day; dear; door; eyes; face; fact; far; felt; fine; friend; gabriel; general; girl; good; grace; hand; having; head; high; home; hour; house; idea; interest; julia; kind; lady; life; little; london; look; madame; man; manner; matter; mind; miriam; miss; moment; mother; mrs; nash; nick; nick dormer; paris; people; peter; peter sherringham; place; poor; question; right; room; rooth; round; saw; sense; sherringham; sort; stage; talk; theatre; things; think; thought; time; want; way; woman; words; work; world cache: 20085.txt plain text: 20085.txt item: #5 of 22 id: 28271 author: Sawyer, Ruth title: Seven Miles to Arden date: None words: 53410 flesch: 86 summary: And so it came to pass that once more Patsy and the tinker found themselves tramping the road to Arden; only this time it was down the straight road marked, Seven Miles, and it was early evening instead of morning. Oh, I say, that's not like you, Irish Patsy! keywords: arden; away; billy; bit; burgeman; car; day; door; eyes; face; faith; father; girl; good; half; hands; head; house; lad; life; like; little; look; man; marjorie; mind; money; night; o'connell; patsy; road; schuyler; smile; thinking; thought; time; tinker; tis; voice; way; world cache: 28271.txt plain text: 28271.txt item: #6 of 22 id: 28492 author: Garland, Hamlin title: The Light of the Star: A Novel date: None words: 45250 flesch: 86 summary: Would it be so with Helen Merival? From the very moment the door had opened to him the glittering woman had been receding into remote and ever remoter distances, for the Helen Merival before him was as simple, candid, and cordial as his own sister. keywords: act; audience; author; day; douglass; eyes; face; good; hand; heart; helen; hugh; know; life; man; merival; moment; morning; mother; new; night; play; playwright; public; self; stage; thought; time; want; westervelt; woman; work cache: 28492.txt plain text: 28492.txt item: #7 of 22 id: 28512 author: McCutcheon, George Barr title: What's-His-Name date: None words: 47146 flesch: 89 summary: Miss Nellie Duluth 31 III. No, little Nellie will go out on the choo-choos. keywords: annie; big; blakeville; bridget; butler; child; davis; day; door; duluth; eyes; face; fairfax; good; half; hand; harvey; husband; life; look; man; men; miss; mrs; nellie; new; night; phoebe; place; room; sir; stage; thing; thought; time; town; way; wife; york cache: 28512.txt plain text: 28512.txt item: #8 of 22 id: 30612 author: Kemble, Fanny title: Records of Later Life date: None words: 286116 flesch: 62 summary: RACHEL, 50, 228, 241; her appearance, 243; her genius, 244; her tenderness, 246, 518, 548 Rackeman, Frederick, 193 Radley, Mr., 496 Rainsforth, Miss, 330 Raphael, his Eve, 451 Reeve, Henry, 447 Revel, Count Adrien de, 521, 527, 528 Revel, Emily de, 521 Richmond, 609 Richmond, Duchess of, 303, 339 Richter, 228 Ristori, 246 Ritchie, Mrs., 626 Roberts, 649 Roberts, Miss, 581 Robertson, 562 Rocca, 345 Roebuck, 209 Rogers, 45, 58, 59; the kindest heart and the unkindest tongue, 65; _young_ poetry, 66; visits Mrs. Grote, his sarcastic temper, 213; Publish it! A _white_, _light_, _sweet_, and _agreeable_ article of human consumption bears, I apprehend, extremely small affinity to a _dark_, _heavy_, _tart_, and _uneatable_ female. keywords: account; act; adelaide; affectionate; america; answer; appearance; beauty; believe; book; brother; bye; case; character; charles; children; country; course; dacre; day; days; deal; dear; dearest; death; desire; dinner; dorothy; emily; england; english; evening; existence; eyes; family; fanny; father; feeling; fine; friend; garden; general; god; good; great; greville; grote; hal; half; harriet; having; head; health; heart; henry; home; hope; hours; house; human; idea; interest; kind; lady; leave; left; letter; life; little; live; london; look; looking; lord; love; man; matter; means; men; mind; miss; moral; morning; mother; mrs; nature; near; new; night; old; opinion; party; people; person; philadelphia; place; play; pleasure; poor; power; present; pretty; public; queen; question; read; reading; regard; return; rogers; room; round; saw; sense; sister; society; sort; spirit; spite; state; street; subject; summer; tell; theatre; things; think; thought; time; town; visit; voice; water; way; week; wish; woman; work; world; writing; years; yesterday; young cache: 30612.txt plain text: 30612.txt item: #9 of 22 id: 31370 author: Hazelton, George Cochrane title: Mistress Nell: A Merry Tale of a Merry Time date: None words: 53027 flesch: 88 summary: Gads-bobbs, he exclaimed, in confusion, the Irish gentleman knows me! There's nothing like your old fiddle, Strings, continued Nell, still playing with delight upon his consternation. Love! continued Nell, bitterly. keywords: adair; buckingham; charles; come; constable; door; duchess; england; eyes; face; girl; good; hand; hart; james; king; landlord; life; like; lips; lordship; love; majesty; man; manager; merry; mistress nell; moll; nay; nell; new; night; play; portsmouth; room; sire; stage; story; strings; swallow; thought; time; tis; voice; way; words cache: 31370.txt plain text: 31370.txt item: #10 of 22 id: 33209 author: Cooke, Marjorie Benton title: The Dual Alliance date: None words: 19541 flesch: 93 summary: While rich patrons yawned below, these young idealists, the musical and dramatic hope of our future, leaned over the railing, up under the roof, trying to grasp the fine shades of expression which mark the finished artist. All this Bob Garratry learned, and raged at. Nobody suspected who she was, and she found great amusement in the occasional outburst of some matinee adorer, in regard to the charms of Bob Garratry. keywords: barbara; bill; bob; day; door; good; governor; man; new; night; paul; people; play; room; talk; things; time; trent; way; work; york cache: 33209.txt plain text: 33209.txt item: #11 of 22 id: 35055 author: Morris, Clara title: A Pasteboard Crown: A Story of the New York Stage date: None words: 98450 flesch: 81 summary: And she can call on me, or you can keep off the stage all your life, Sybil Lawton! And not knowing the true cause of the swift change and difference, she could but consider him a very properly correct young man in his attitude as the manager of her namesake, Sybil Lawton; and therefore she withdrew into the far extension breakfast-room and conversed with a mumbling old parrot, who for thirty years had implored the people of his world to scratch Polly's head, and had invariably rewarded the good Samaritan who heeded his appeal by biting viciously the hand that scratched. keywords: bit; bulkley; day; dear; der; door; dorothy; dorrie; eyes; face; family; father; galt; girl; god; good; half; hand; head; heart; help; home; house; jim; john; juliet; know; lawton; left; lena; leslie; let; life; like; lips; little; look; looking; love; mamma; man; miss; moment; morrell; mother; mrs; new; papa; people; place; poor; red; right; roberts; room; saying; sister; stage; stewart; sybil; thing; thought; thrall; time; und; way; white; wife; woman; words; years cache: 35055.txt plain text: 35055.txt item: #12 of 22 id: 36215 author: Strang, Lewis Clinton title: Famous Prima Donnas date: None words: 42702 flesch: 69 summary: The last two plays, it will be remembered, were by Bronson Howard, and he once took occasion to remark that Miss Hall came nearer meeting his ideal of the two characters she impersonated than any other actress on the stage. During the first half of the season of 1899-1900, Miss Hall was the Praline in The Girl from Maxim's,--a French farce, undeniably dirty, but funny to those not saturated to the point of boredom with the foreign variety of low comedy, which has all the marks of being manufactured to order. keywords: act; alice; art; ashley; boston; celeste; character; comedy; company; d'arville; davis; della; earle; edna; fox; girl; glaser; great; hall; hopper; light; lillian; little; marie; miss; mrs; music; new; nielsen; opera; pauline; personality; russell; rôle; season; singing; stage; success; tempest; templeton; theatre; time; voice; way; woman; work; years; york cache: 36215.txt plain text: 36215.txt item: #13 of 22 id: 36502 author: Vance, Louis Joseph title: Joan Thursday: A Novel date: None words: 114563 flesch: 78 summary: To them all (if they remembered her at all) she was Joan Thursday. I am Joan Thursday, she added with a hint of challenge in voice and glance. keywords: act; afternoon; arlington; away; business; butch; car; chair; chance; come; company; course; day; door; evening; eyes; face; fact; fowey; girl; going; good; guess; half; hand; head; heart; helena; home; hour; house; joan; left; life; lips; look; love; man; marbridge; matthias; mean; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mrs; new; open; place; play; quard; return; right; room; round; smile; stage; street; table; tankerville; theatre; thing; thought; thursby; thursday; time; venetia; voice; want; way; week; wilbrow; woman; work cache: 36502.txt plain text: 36502.txt item: #14 of 22 id: 37545 author: Tracy, Virginia title: "Persons Unknown" date: None words: 150696 flesch: 87 summary: Now, Mr. Herrick? Herrick told what he knew, and McGarrigle, his eyes resting with admiration on the extremely undraped muscles of his informant, plied him with attentive questions. Now please, Mr. Herrick, don't get excited and mad! keywords: arm; away; boy; business; child; christina; christina hope; cornish; coroner; course; dark; day; dear; death; denny; deutch; door; euyck; eyes; face; feet; friend; girl; good; great; gumama; hair; hand; head; heart; herrick; hope; house; ingham; justice; kane; kind; know; lady; left; letter; life; look; love; man; men; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; nancy; new; nicola; night; pascoe; people; person; place; play; police; room; rose; round; shadow; shot; sir; story; table; things; think; thought; time; voice; way; wheeler; window; woman; world cache: 37545.txt plain text: 37545.txt item: #15 of 22 id: 40734 author: Thorne, Guy title: The Socialist date: None words: 86097 flesch: 83 summary: Lord Hayle, as it happened, was going to a bridge-party of young men, which was to be held in one of the card-rooms at the Cocoa Tree Club. Read the signs of the times, and be sure that before you and I are old men we shall be equal in the eyes of the world as we are unequal now! keywords: away; bishop; burnside; camborne; chapter; constance; course; day; dear; door; duke; eyes; fabian; face; fact; felt; flood; girl; good; great; half; hand; hayle; house; lady; left; life; london; lord; love; man; marriott; mary; men; mind; miss; moment; new; night; oxford; paddington; people; place; play; real; room; rose; saw; socialist; society; stage; theatre; things; think; thought; time; voice; words; work; world; young cache: 40734.txt plain text: 40734.txt item: #16 of 22 id: 42069 author: Wheeler, Ruthe S. title: Janet Hardy in Hollywood date: None words: 44181 flesch: 89 summary: Janet heard the master of ceremonies, standing at the microphone nearby, announce, Henry Thorne, most famous of the directors for Ace productions, Mrs. Thorne, their daughter, Helen, and Janet Hardy. You and Jim will freeze, protested Janet. keywords: air; away; billy; bus; cora; curt; dad; eyes; father; girls; good; hardy; helen; henry; hollywood; home; janet; jim; margie; minutes; miss; mother; picture; play; right; room; rôle; school; snow; thorne; time; williams cache: 42069.txt plain text: 42069.txt item: #17 of 22 id: 450 author: Phillips, David Graham title: Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise date: None words: 313524 flesch: 88 summary: Said Susan: I had about made up my mind it was all bad. Anyhow, since it would help her with Gulick and wouldn't do Lorna the least mite of harm, why not let him think he was right? Said Susan: Hasn't he been talking to you about getting away from--from all this? But I don't care, cried Etta, moved to an outburst of frankness by her sense of security in Susan's loyalty and generosity. keywords: away; bed; believe; big; body; brent; burlingham; business; care; chance; city; class; clothes; cold; come; course; day; days; dear; dinner; dollars; door; dress; drink; etta; experience; expression; eyes; face; feeling; feet; food; freddie; friend; girl; glance; god; going; gone; good; gray; hair; half; hand; hat; head; heart; help; home; hope; hour; house; human; kind; know; lady; left; life; like; lips; living; long; look; looking; lot; love; making; man; matter; maud; men; mind; miss; money; mother; mrs; need; new; open; palmer; pay; people; place; play; real; right; rod; room; round; ruth; sam; self; sense; set; smile; sort; spenser; stage; stay; street; strong; susan; susan lenox; table; talk; things; thinking; thought; time; tone; took; try; understand; voice; want; warham; way; week; white; woman; work; working; world; years; york; young cache: 450.txt plain text: 450.txt item: #18 of 22 id: 46358 author: Johnson, Owen title: Max Fargus date: None words: 47473 flesch: 83 summary: I am Mr. Bofinger, the lawyer said. Mr. Bofinger has left the room. keywords: alonzo; bofinger; course; day; dear; door; eyes; face; fargus; glance; groll; half; hand; head; home; house; lawyer; life; look; love; man; max; miss; moment; money; new; night; room; sammamon; sheila; smile; street; thought; time; way; woman; years cache: 46358.txt plain text: 46358.txt item: #19 of 22 id: 47561 author: Pinero, Arthur Wing title: Trelawny of The "Wells": A Comedietta in Four Acts date: None words: 28383 flesch: 94 summary: [_Telfer draws himself erect, puts his hand in his breast, but otherwise remains stationary._] _Mrs. Telfer. _Rose._ keywords: ablett; arthur; avonia; chair; charles; colpoys; dear; door; gadd; good; gower; imogen; miss; mossop; mrs; o'dwyer; right; room; rose; sir; sir william; table; telfer; tom; trelawny; william; wrench; yes cache: 47561.txt plain text: 47561.txt item: #20 of 22 id: 48049 author: Pemberton, T. Edgar (Thomas Edgar) title: Ellen Terry and Her Sisters date: None words: 75988 flesch: 69 summary: Lady Macduff's son has appeared too seldom on the scene, perhaps, to be counted; but Fleance, Mamillius, Prince Arthur, Falstaff's boy, Moth (Don Armado's page), King Edward V., and his brother, the Duke of York, Puck, and the other fairies of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' and even Ariel--these are characters specially designed for infantile players; and these, or the majority of these, were sustained at the Princess's Theatre, now by Miss Kate, and now by Miss Ellen Terry, who were wont to appear, moreover, in such other plays, serious or comic, poetic or pantomimic, as needed the presence and assistance of the pretty, sprightly, clever children. And, much later on, he says: In the present days of genuine heroine-worship, with recollections full upon us of Beatrice, Viola, Olivia, and Camma, it seems odd to read, in connection with this slight comedietta, that Miss Ellen Terry is worthy of praise for the spirit and point with which she played the part of a youthful groom. keywords: acting; actor; actress; appearance; arthur; audience; author; beatrice; character; charles; comedy; company; course; critics; day; days; doubt; drama; ellen terry; english; evening; face; father; fechter; friend; good; great; hamlet; heart; henry; henry irving; home; house; irving; john; kate; kean; king; lady; life; london; love; lyceum; manager; marion terry; miss; miss terry; mr charles; mrs; new; night; parts; performance; piece; play; portia; prince; princess; production; public; queen; scene; shakespeare; sir; sister; sothern; stage; story; success; theatre; theatrical; thought; time; way; william; words; work; world; years; young cache: 48049.txt plain text: 48049.txt item: #21 of 22 id: 48642 author: Hope, Anthony title: A Servant of the Public date: None words: 105889 flesch: 84 summary: Somewhat in this vein, but with a more malicious and humorous turn of speech, Ashley Mead ran through the history of the firm of Muddock and Mead for Lady Kilnorton's pleasure and information. Even with Jack Fenning Ashley felt the difficulties of the position. keywords: alice; ashley; ashley mead; babba; bertie; bob; bowdon; business; course; day; eyes; face; fenning; going; good; hand; hazlewood; husband; irene; jack; jewett; kilnorton; lady; laugh; life; look; love; man; mind; miss; moment; muddock; ora; ora pinsent; people; pinsent; right; smile; talk; thing; thought; time; want; way; world cache: 48642.txt plain text: 48642.txt item: #22 of 22 id: 55378 author: Hume, Fergus title: Miss Mephistopheles: A Novel (Sequel to Madame Midas.) date: None words: 65741 flesch: 84 summary: Mr. Naball was an ordinary-looking young man, who always dressed fashionably, and had very little to say for himself, so that few guessed the keen astute brain that was hidden under this somewhat foppish exterior. On this day when they were on their way to Toorak, Fenton was excited over the matter, and ventured all kinds of theories on the subject, while Mr. Naball smoked a cigarette, and admired the fit of his gloves. keywords: caprice; case; child; dear; detective; diamonds; door; eugénie; eyes; ezra; face; fenton; good; house; keith; kitty; lazarus; little; look; love; malton; man; meg; miss; moment; money; mortimer; mrs; murder; naball; night; note; room; round; stewart; street; time; villiers; voice; want; way; window; woman cache: 55378.txt plain text: 55378.txt