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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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sdorf, he was born inBerlin a little over forty-five years ago.Mr. Mansfield has not taken the troubleto correct the prevailing impression thathis birthplace was Heligoland, but hehimself is the authority for the statementthat it was Berlin. In many striking qualities of his char-acter and in the German atmospherewhich he infuses into several of the mostsuccessful plays with which his fame isidentified we can trace the Teutonic in-fluences of his early days. From hismother he must have inherited many ofhis vocal and artistic gifts, and the cir-cumstances and environment of his youthstrengthened and developed them. Hercareer as an honored Gast at many ofthe most brilliant courts of Europe wasillustrious, and the boy had unusual op-portunities for culture and to see life insome of its most varied and interestingphases. The foundations of his scholarship werelaid at one of Englands most famousschools, but he devoted himself to severalthings besides books, and when the Digitized by Google
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by Byron, New York. Mr. MANSFIELD AS ALCESTE IN THE MISANTHROPE. came to choose his own career he ht of being a painter. His ability)th vocal and instrumental musicriven delight to his mothers guests,le had also painted with promise ofLnt success. Even now he findsoccasionally to paint pictures which(rs. Mansfields especial pride. fate did not intend Richard Mans-o gain his high position in the world except as an actor. Therefore sheIiim suffer hardships until he finallyfi the right path. An intense and nature like that of Mansfield must pass through suffering; but his strengthof character, his stern self-reliance, wouldhave made it impossible for him to doanything but carve out his own fortunes,independent of help from his friends.In Boston he tried for a time to contenthimself as a clerk in a store, but hesoon returned to London to work againat Ins painting. The hardships he en-dured in London have been the subjectof much newspaper gossip, but under thecircumstances they were inevit

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