INDEX

Abbey, Henry E., [26], [29] note, [246], [247].
Abington, Frances, [iii].
Adams, Annie, [325].
Adams, Maude, [324–46];
parentage and birth, [325];
career as a child actress, [325–29];
goes to New York, [329];
with E. H. Sothern, [330];
A Midnight Bell, [331];
in Charles Frohman’s company, [331–2];
John Drew’s leading woman, [332–34];
becomes a “star,” [334];
The Little Minister, [335];
Romeo and Juliet, [336];
L’Aiglon, [337];
Peter Pan, [338–9];
What Every Woman Knows, [339–40];
Chanticler, [340–41];
The Maid of Orleans, [341–2];
Miss Adams and Barrie, [342];
her personality, [343–6];
her repertoire, [333] (note), [335] (note); [347].
Agar, Marie, [13].
Aguglia, Mimi, [366].
Aiglon, L’, [337].
Aldrich, Mildred, [271] (note).
Alexander, George, [376].
Alexandra, Queen, [49].
Allen, Viola, [362] (note).
Allgood, Sara, [366].
Alma-Tadema, Laurence, [87], [248].
Ambigu, The, [129–30].
Anderson, Mary, [230–264];
parentage, [230];
birth, [231];
girlhood and schooling, [232–35];
decides on a stage career, [236];
first appearance, [237];
early trials, [239–40];
acts in eastern cities, [242];
goes abroad, [244];
her repertoire, [245] (note);
acts in London, [246–7];
her friendships, [248];
a London ovation, [252];
distaste for the theater, [256–7];
last appearance on the stage, [268–9];
marriage, [260];
her acting, [261–2];
her personality, [262–3]; [269] (note).
Angelo, Mlle., [133].
Anglin, Margaret, [354–6].
Antoine, André, [153].
Archer, William, [157], [184] (note), [202], [221] and note, [283].
Arliss, George, [286].
Arnold, Matthew, [45] (note).
Arthur, Julia, [362] (note).
Asquith, Herbert, [318].
Augier, Emile, [139], [150].
Baker, George Pierce, [265].
Bancroft, Squire B., [109], [111], [376].
Barrett, Lawrence, [208], [242], [247].
Barrie, James M., [334], [342].
Barron Charles, [308].
Barry, Elizabeth, [iii].
Barrymore, Ethel, [350–53].
Barrymore, Maurice, [286], [350].
Bartet, Jeanne, [149], [180] (note).
Bates, Blanche, [362] (note).
Beauplan, Victor, [136].
Beauregard, General, [240].
Becky Sharp, [285].
Belasco, David, [327–8].
Bennett, Arnold, [166], [168].
Bernhardt, Maurice, [13] note, [32] note, [34].
Bernhardt Sarah, [iv], [3–51];
birth, [5];
schooling, [6–7];
at the Conservatoire, [8–9];
her motto, [9];
début at the Comédie Française, [10];
at the Odéon, [11–16];
hospital services during War of 1870, [13];
returns to the Comédie, [16];
eccentricities, [19];
her sculpture, [19], [22];
acts in London, [20–23];
leaves the Comédie, [24];
first American appearance, [28];
marriage, [31];
world-wide tours, [32];
becomes a manager, [33];
the “Marie Colombier” and Mme. Noirmont scandals, [34];
the Memoirs, [35];
her art, [36–41], [44–46];
fêtes in her honor, [41], [43];
Sarah the worker, [4], [42];
professor at the Conservatoire, [43];
admitted to Legion of Honor, [43];
loses her leg, [47];
repertoire, [12], [18], [28], [33] (notes); [160], [171], [175], [183], [184] (note), [186–92], [199], [201], [224], [226], [244].
Berton, Pierre, [133] (note), [151].
Bertrand, Eugène, [151].
Besnard, Paul, [169].
Betterton, Mrs., [iii].
Bingham, Amelia, [362] (note).
Black, William, [248].
Bloodgood, Clara, [362] (note).
Bonnetain, Paul, [34] (note).
Booth, Edwin, [77] and note, [208], [234], [240], [242], [247], [347].
Boucicault, Dion, [242].
Bracegirdle, Anne, [iii], [373], [375] and note.
Brady, William A., [359].
Brand, Thomas, [369].
Brandes, George, [87].
Brougham, John, [208].
Browning, Robert, [248].
Burke, Billie, [351].
Burne-Jones, Edward, [87].
Byron, Arthur, [205] (note).
Byron, Oliver Doud, [205].
Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, [366].
Captain Brassbound’s Conversion, [121–122].
Carew, James, [123] (note).
Carter, Mrs. Leslie, [362] (note).
Carré, Albert, [138].
Caruso, Enrico, [123].
Cayvan, Georgia, [89] (note).
Chanticler, [340].
Charpentier, Gustave, [41].
Chartran, T., [169].
Chartres, Mme. Vivanti, [194] (note).
Chaumont, Céline, [160].
Cheatham, Kitty, [214].
Checchi, Signor, [175].
Chetwood, Wm., [371] (note).
Chilly, M., [11], [12].
Chlapowski, Count Karol Bozenta, [67], [69], [72], [75], [76], [79], 82–3 (note), [90] (note).
Coghlan, Charles, [109], [111].
Coghlan, Rose, [362] (note).
Coleman, Mrs. Edw., [370] (note).
Collins, Wilkie, [248].
Colombier, Marie, [34].
Comédie Française, profit-sharing system, [20] (note);
see Bernhardt and Réjane.
Conquest, Ida, [362] (note).
Cook, Dutton, [96–7], [99].
Coppée, François, [41], [42].
Coquelin, B.-C., [23], [41], [193].
Corbin, John, [45], [314].
Corey, Mrs., [370].
Cowl, Jane, [362], [365].
Crabtree, Lotta, [228].
Craig, Ailsa, [106].
Craig, Gordon, [106], [121].
Crehan, Kate, [205] and note.
Crews, Laura Hope, [359], [360–1].
Crosman, Henrietta, [362].
Crosnier, Mme., [153].
Cushman, Charlotte, [iv], [235], [239] (note), [347].
Daly, Arnold, [350].
Daly, Augustin, [207], [208], 214–15 and note, [219–20], [222–27].
Daly’s Theatre, London, [223].
Damala, M., [31].
d’Annunzio, Gabriel, [197], [276].
d’Aurevilly, B., [150].
D’Avenant, William, [370] and note, [371].
Davenport, Mrs., [370].
Davenport, E. L., [270].
Davenport, Fanny, [208].
Davey, Thomas, [267].
David, Félicien, [132].
Davies, Acton, [328], [336] (note).
Dean, Frederic, [344] (note).
de Banville, Theodore, [36].
Defère, M., [150].
de Lesseps, F., [20] (note).
de Navarro, Antonio F., [260].
de Reszke, Eduard, [89].
de Reszke, Jan, [89].
de Saint-Victor, Paul, [17].
Deschanel, Paul, [49].
Desclée, Aimée Olympe, [137] and note, [222] (note).
Devrient, Fritz, [58].
Dillingham, C. B., [313].
Doll’s House, A, [280].
Doran, Dr. John, [368].
Dornis, Jean, [174] (note).
Doro, Marie, [351].
Doucet, C., [9] (note).
Dow, Ada (Mrs. Currier), [301], [302] and note, [306].
Drew, John, [206], [214], [226], [332–4], [350].
Drew, Mrs. John, [204] (note), [206].
Drew-Barrymore, Georgie, [350] (note).
Dumas, Alexandre, fils, [175–7], [185], [188–9].
Dumas, Alexandre, père, [13] (note).
Dunn, Emma, [362], [365].
Duquesnel, M., [11], [16], [142], [143].
Duse, Eleonora, [iv], [123], [171–202];
birth, [171];
family, [172];
childhood, [173–4];
first important appearances, [174], [175];
marriage, [175];
Duse and Dumas, [176];
foreign appearances, [177–8];
acts in America, [178], [183];
her art, [179–81], [199–202];
acts in London, [183];
acts in Paris, [184–93];
the Dumas memorial performance, [188–9];
her personality, [194–6];
the d’Annuzio alliance, [197];
her repertoire, [182] (note), [197] (note); [265] (note).
Eaton, Walter Prichard, [280], [352], [355], [361].
Eberle, Robert, [344] (note).
Echegaray, Jose, [276].
Edison, Thomas A., [29].
Elliott, Gertrude, [366].
Elliott, Maxine, [362] (note).
Emmet, J. K., [270], [326].
Easier, Jane, [129].
Eugénie, former Empress, [49].
Faversham, William, [336], [350].
Fenwick, Irene, [363], [365].
Ferguson, Elsie, [302], [364].
Field, Eugene, [87].
Filon, Augustin, [156] and note, [159].
Fiske, Harrison Grey, [269], [289–90], [292].
Fiske, Mrs. Minnie Maddern, [181] (note); [265–298];
speaks at Harvard, [265];
her significance, [266];
parentage, [267];
birth, [268];
career as a child actress, [268–71];
marriage and retirement, [272];
Mrs. Fiske and the modern spirit, [273];
her repertoire, [270] (note), [274] (note);
her art, [275–87];
encouragement of native-made drama, [288–9];
Mr. Fiske’s share, [289–90];
the theatrical syndicate, [290–1];
as a stage director, [291];
as a playwright, [292];
outside interests, [293];
her personality, [294–6]; [357].
Forbes, Mary, [366].
Forbes-Robertson, J., [255], [376].
Frohman, Charles, [313], [331–2], [350].
Frohman, Daniel, [330].
Fulda, Ludwig, [276].
Fyvie, John, [373] and (note).
Garden, Mary, [279].
Genée, Adeline, [123].
George, Grace, [359–60].
Gilbert, Mrs. James, [214], [226].
Gilbert, W. S., [248], [255], [262].
Gilder, Richard Watson, [87].
Gillette, William, [350].
Gladstone, Wm. E., [248].
Glendinning, Ernest, [350].
Gosse, Edmund, [248].
Got, François, [20], [27], [187].
Grant, General U. S., [87], [241].
Griffin, Dr. Hamilton, [232], [236], [237].
Griffith, Frank Carlos, [269] (note), [271] (note), [293] (note), [295] (note), [296] (note).
Grille-d’Egout, Mlle., [154].
Gwynn, Nell, [370].
Hackett, James K., [336], [350].
Hale, Philip, [49].
Halévy, L., [155], [187].
Harancourt, Edmond, [42].
Hare, John, [111], [376].
Harned, Virginia, [330], [362] (note).
Hedda Gabler, [279], [280].
Hedman, Martha, [356], [362], [365].
Herne, James A., [327–8].
Hichens, Robert, [260].
High Road, The, [289].
Hill, Barton, [80] and note.
Hollis Street Theatre, Boston, [225] (note), [309].
Hood, General, [240].
Howells, William Dean, [284], [314] (note).
Hughes, Margaret, [370].
Hugo, Victor, [14] and note, [249].
Huneker, James, [357].
Huret, Jules, [7] (note), [128] (note), [143], [153], [168], [169], [192].
Hyde, James Hazen, [165].
Ibsen, Henrik, [273], [276–7], [279–81], [357].
Illington, Margaret, [362], [363].
Ingersoll, Robert G., [306–7], and note.
Irish national theatre, [103].
Irving, Henry, [105], [112–3], [115], [117], [118], [120], [215] (note), [247], [351], [376].
Irving, Isabel, [214], [362] (note).
Irwin, May, [362] (note).
James, Henry, [21].
Janauschek, Francesca, [v], [347].
Janis, Elsie, [49] (note).
Jefferson, Joseph, [242], [270].
Johnson, Samuel, 373–4 and note.
Jones, Henry Arthur, [273].
Jordan, Dorothy, [iii].
Jordan, Thomas, [370], [371] (note).
Jourdain, Frantz, [132].
Kalich, Bertha, [356], [366].
Kean, Charles, [95], [97], [101].
Keane, Doris, [362], [365].
Keene, Laura, [270].
Kelly, Charles; see Wardell.
Kelm, Joseph, [132].
Kemble, Frances Ann, [iv], [256].
Kester, Paul, [292].
Killigrew, Thomas, [370], [371].
Kiskadden, James, [325].
Knipp, Mrs., [370].
L’Aiglon, [337].
Laurent, Marie, [129].
Lavedan, Henri, [41].
Leah Kleschna, [287].
Legault, Mlle., [135].
Legend of Leonora, The, [343].
Legouvé, Ernest, [136].
Lemaître, Frédérick, [129].
Lemaître, Jules, [36], [41], [50], [155], [187].
Levick, Milnes, [237].
Lewis, James, [214], [226].
Little Minister, The, [334–5].
Long, John Luther, [288], [298].
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, [87–88], [242].
Lowell, James Russell, [87], [248], [249], [255].
Lyceum Theatre, [113–114].
Lynch, Arthur, [210], [218] (note).
Lytton, Lord, [248].
Macauley’s Theatre, Louisville, [207].
McCarthy, Justin H., [87].
McCarthy, Lillah, [356], [366].
McCracken, Elizabeth, [321], [323].
McCullough, John, [79–80], [81] (note), [208], [236], [247], [270].
MacKaye, Percy, [124] (note).
McLellan, C. M. S., [215] (note), [288], [308].
Macready, William C., [98] (note).
McWade, Robert, [301].
Madame Sans-Gêne, [155–6], [158], [160], [162] and note.
Maeterlinck, Maurice, [277].
Magnus, Baron, [27].
Maid of Orleans, The, [341].
Manchester Players, The, [103].
Man of Destiny, The, [122].
Mannering, Mary, [362] (note).
Mansfield, Richard, [225] (note).
Mantell, Robert, [350].
Mapes, Victor, [189] (note).
Marlowe, Julia, [89] (note), [299–323];
birth, [299], [305] (note);
girlhood, [300];
first appearances, [300];
course of training, [302–4];
returns to stage, [305];
early uncertainties, [306–8];
first triumph, [309];
marriage to Robert Taber, [311];
repertoire, [311] (note);
the Julia Marlowe Taber period, [311–3];
the period of the commercial plays, [313–6];
the “Sothern and Marlowe” period, [316–21];
acts in London, [318];
at the New Theatre, [319];
her personality, [321–3]; [347].
Marshall, Anne, [370].
Martin, Frederick Roy, [164].
Mary of Magdala, [287].
Matthison, Edith Wynne, [356], [358–9].
Maurice, Paul, [15] (note).
Maxwell, Perriton, [330] (notes).
Mayer, Gaston, [168] (note).
Meilhac, Henri, [137], [153], [170].
Mendès, Catulle, [38] (note), [42], [187].
Mendès, Catulle, Mme. Jane, [47].
Meunier, Dauphin, [126], [140], [154], [155].
Mid-Channel, [352].
Miles, Robt. E. J., [301], [305].
Miller, Henry, [350].
Mitchell, Langdon, [285].
Modjeska, Helena, [52–92];
birth, [52];
childhood, [52–58];
marriage, [59];
first appearance, [60];
life as a strolling player, [61];
joins company at Lemberg, [63];
in stock company at Czerniowce, [63];
in company of Cracow theatre, [64–69];
goes to Imperial Theatre at Warsaw, [70];
goes to America, [76];
the farming experiment in California, [78];
first appearance in America, [81];
repertoire, [82] (note);
her personality, [83];
her art [85–87];
her friendships, [87];
her address at the Chicago Exposition, [89];
testimonial of 1905, [90];
death, [92]; [347].
Modrzejewski, Gustave, [56], [57], [59], [61], [64].
Mohun, Lord, [373].
Morris, Clara, [89] (note), [242], [362] (note).
Mountford, William, [373].
Naptal-Arnault, Mme., [128] (note).
Nazimova, Alla, [356–8].
Neilson, Adelaide, [v], [208], [219].
Neilson, Julia, [94] (note).
Neilson-Terry, Phyllis, [94] (note), [366].
Newman, Cardinal, [248].
New Theatre, The, [124] (note), [316], [319], [359].
New York Idea, The, 283–284 (note).
Noirmont, Mme., [35].
Offenbach, J., [145].
Oldfield, Anne, [iii].
Olivia, [111–2].
O’Neil, Nance, [358], [362].
O’Neill, James, [292].
Orleneff, Paul, [356].
Owen, William, [308].
Paderewski, Ignace J., [88], [90], [91] (note).
Page, Adèle, [129].
Parker, H. T., [279], [280].
Parker, Louis N., [334].
Peabody, Josephine Preston, [124] (note).
Pepys, Samuel, [370], [371].
Perrin, Emile, [17], [19], [22], [24], [27].
Peter Pan, [338–9].
Pillars of Society, [279], [282].
Pinero, A. W., [273], [276], [376].
Poincairé, Raymond, [43].
Porel, D. P., [152], [166].
Power, Tyrone, [286], [287].
Prince of Wales’s Theatre, [109].
Princess’s Theatre, [95].
Provost, Jean, [9] (note).
Prynne, William, [369].
Rachel (Rachel Felix), [iv], [45] (note), [150].
Raymond, John T., [208].
Reade, Charles, [104], [108], [116].
Reed, Florence, [363], [365].
Regnier, F. J., [9] (note), [133], [134], [135] and note, [136], [138], [140], [144], [145–9], [150], [151], [161].
Rehan, Ada, [iii], [203–229];
birth, [204];
brought to America, [204];
her family, [205];
first appearance, [205];
in various companies, [206–209];
joins Augustin Daly, [209];
her repertoire, [208] (note), [217] (note);
her personality, [210–13];
the Daly Company, [214];
her acting, [217–21], [226];
first plays in London, [221];
becomes a “star,” [224];
her last appearances, [227–8]; [347].
Reicher, Hedwig, [356], [366].
Réjane, Gabrielle, [126–170];
birth, [128];
childhood, [128–131];
at school, [131–133];
enters the Conservatoire, [133];
first public appearance, [138];
joins the Vaudeville, [142];
repertoire, 143–4 (note);
correspondence with Regnier, [145–9];
informal appearances, [150];
joins the Variétés, [151];
a typical first night, [152];
Madame Sans-Gêne, [165];
her personality, [126], [156], [168–70];
her art, [158–160];
appearances outside France, [160–1], [167];
the American tours, [161];
the Havana fiasco, [163–4];
the Hyde dinner, [165];
marriage, [166];
the Théâtre Réjane, [166–7]; [291].
Richepin, Jean, [34] (note), [35].
Richman, Charles, [228].
Riley, Josephine, [301].
Ristori, Adelaide, [iv], [200], [244].
Robinson, Mary, [iv].
Robson, Eleanor, [362] (note).
Rochefort, Henri, [187].
Rosemary, [334].
Rosmersholm, [281].
Rossi, Cesare, [175].
Rostand, Edmond, [3], [4] (note), [41], [42], [43], [49], [189].
Ruhl, Arthur, [357].
Russell, Annie, [362].
Russell, Hattie (Harriet Crehan), [205] (note).
Salvation Nell, [279], [288].
Salvini, Tommaso, [183], [200].
Samson, Joseph, [9] (note).
Sand, George, [13].
Sarcey, Francisque, [10] (note), [15], [17], [25], [36], [137], [140], [144], [150], [154], [155], [177], [187], [190], [192].
Sardou, Victorien, [25] (note), [41], [150], [155], [162], [223].
Saunderson, Mrs., [370].
Scott, Clement, [94], [106], [111], [112], [114], [221], [222] (note).
Scott, Sir Walter, [93].
Sembrich, Marcella, [91] (note).
Shannon, Effie, [362] (note).
Shaw, George Bernard, [iii], [38], [113–4], [115], [117], [120], [121], [199], [225–7], [273].
Shaw, Mary, [308], [362] (note).
Sheldon, Edward, [288].
Sherman, General Wm. T., [87], [241].
Siddons, Sarah, [iv], [374].
Sienkiewicz, Henryk, [75], [81].
Simon, Charles, [133].
Skinner, Otis, [226], [227], [350].
Sothern, E. A., [103], [118].
Sothern, E. H., [265], [316–20], [330], [350].
Stahl, Rose, [362].
Starr, Frances, [362], [365].
Stedman, E. C., [91], [92].
Stevens, Emily, [362], [364].
Stinson, Fred, [308], [312].
Stoddard, Lorimer, [284].
Sudermann, Hermann, [276].
Symons, Arthur, [159], [194], [318].
Synge, John M., [iii].
Taber, Robert, [308], [311–2], [313] (note).
Tarasiewicz, Michael, [92].
Taylor, Laurette, [362], [366].
Tellegen, Lou, [350].
Tempest, Marie, [366].
Tennyson, Lord, [87], [223], [248], [256].
Terry, Beatrice, [94] (note).
Terry, Benjamin, [93], [94], [95], [96].
Terry, Charles, [94] and note.
Terry, Ellen, [iii], [93–125];
parentage, [93];
family, [94–5];
birth, [94];
early training, [96], [99–100];
first appearance, [96–8];
a strolling player, [101];
Atar-Gull, [102];
at Bristol, [102–3];
with the elder Sothern, [103];
marriage and retirement, [103–4];
returns to stage, [104];
acts first with Irving, [105];
second retirement, [106–8];
returns to stage, [109];
with S. B. Bancroft, [109–11];
first plays Portia, [109];
with John Hare, [111–12];
Olivia, [111];
becomes leading woman at the Lyceum, [112];
the Irving régime, [113];
her personality, [114], [118], [121];
Bernard Shaw’s estimate, [113], [115], [117], [120];
her art, [116];
leaves Irving’s company, [121];
the Terry Jubilee, [122];
a lecturer on Shakespeare, [123–4];
repertoire, [119] (note); [247].
Terry, Florence, [94], [95].
Terry, Fred, [94] and note.
Terry, George, [94] (note).
Terry, Kate, [94], [95], [101], [102].
Terry, Marion, [94], [95].
Terry, Minnie, [94] (note).
Tess of the D’Urbervilles, [284].
Theuriet, André, [41], [42].
Thierry, Edward, [135].
Thomas, Ambroise, [136].
Thompson, Vance, [157].
Tilden, Samuel J., [244] (note).
Tree, H. Beerbohm, [318], [376].
Vandenhoff, George, [236].
Varrey, Charles, [20] (note).
Verbruggen, Mrs., [iii].
Victoria, Queen, of Spain, [49].
von Bülow, Hans, [87].
Walkley, A. B., [318], [319] (note).
Wallack, Lester, [355].
Walsh, Blanche, [362] (note).
Ward, Mrs. Humphrey, [248].
Wardell, Charles, [106], [123] (note).
Ware, Helen, [362], [365].
Warfield, David, [350].
Watterson, Henry, [87], [232] (note), [238] (note), [244] (note).
Watts, George Frederick, [87], [103–4], [248].
Western, Lucille, [270].
White, LeGrand, [272] (note).
Wilde, Oscar, [157], [273].
Wills, W. G., [112].
Wilson, Francis, [265].
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