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Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume35 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 35
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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the public has bene-fited by every one of Mansfields vic-tories. I have a strong suspicion that whenactors have left his company and forth-with gossiped about how impossible it is to get along with Mansfield, they have I L ft A^*J(i£*_. H From a painting by Edgar Cameron. Mb. MANSFIELD AS THE BARON CHEVRIAL IN PARISIAN ROMANCE. Flay produced in 1882. From a photograph taken In 1906. Digitized by Google 10 Richard Mansfield. been so full of the mighty ego that theyhave felt themselves under no necessityto submit to discipline. There are veryfew actors in this country who cannotlearn something from Richard Mansfield.Mansfields distinction as a stage di-rector is due to the fact that to the cos-tumes, the demeanor, the make-up, thedemeanor of even the humblest super inhis company he pays careful attention.His Julius Caesar, Cyrano de Berg-erac, Ivan the Terrible and HenryV. have been notable spectacular aswell as dramatic productions, picturesquein their elaborate detail and investiture
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Mr. MANSFIELD IN KINO RICHARD III/ Pint produced in 1889. From a photograph taken in 1906. Courtesy of Mr. Marofield. of scenic beauty. In his guidance of theactors who are his principal support,Mansfield has a fine and true feeling fordramatic harmony; there is a thoroughstudy of manners, exquisite skill in minuteportraiture, and historical fidelity. One of his friends says that Mansfieldrealizes that he is sometimes nervous andirritable and that he frequently begins arehearsal with a note to die effect that hemay say things he does not mean andthat he hopes his people will try andunderstand him. As for the newspaper men, one of themin enumerating the well-known man-nerisms of Richard Mans-field, said recently: Perhaps somebody tookout an accident insurancepolicy, hired a corps of pri-vate detectives for a body-guard, donned chain-armor,and then gently apprisedhim of these things. Cer-tain it is that in late yearsthey have been graduallydiminishing. A great man, be he actor,novelist

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