Role Collection (#49)

Giselle, Grisi
GISELLE Carlotta Grisi in the leading role

Aerial Warfare Foreseen
At the outbreak of war, the role of the aeroplane was uncertain : this prediction of bombing ships was premature, given the rudimentary technology then available

Actor in Role of Hamlet
Albers, a Belgian actor, in the role of Hamlet

Actor in Role of Macduff
ARTHUR BOURCHIER English actor in the role of Macduff in Macbeth

Ballet Russes / Helene
HELENE DE SPARTE Madame Ida Rubinstein in the role of Helene

William Gillette / Holmes
William Gillette in the role of the famous detective; famous for bringing the character to the stage at the turn of the century

Clement in Stage Role
Mademoiselle Clement, in the role of Nina Vernon in La petite ville, is grieved at the behaviour of her beloved and flourishes her hankie in despair

Johann Von Oesterreich
ARCHDUKE JOHANN OF AUSTRIA Son of Leopold II, commanded Austrian Army in Napoleonic Wars, statesman who played a prominent role in the 1848 uprisings, chosen Regent

New Year Clown & Coster
A clown makes a coster pull a cart, while the poor old donkey has a free ride for a change

Morals / Virtue & Vice
Virtues and vices: (1) nobility (2) anger and accidie (3) envy

Dickens as Bobadil
CHARLES DICKENS Dickens in the role of Captain Bobadil in Ben Jonsons Every Man in His Humour

Muses and Apollo
The Nine Muses dance with their patron and friend, Apollo (known as Apollo Musagete when playing this role)

Valencia / Pearl Fishers
THE PEARL FISHERS A photo of Amparo Alabau in the leading role of Valencia

Korean Lion Dance
Japanese children react in all kinds of ways when a street dancer enacts the role of a Korean Lion

Norman Heatley
NORMAN G HEATLEY English scientist who played a crucial role in the discovery of penicillin : at work in his Cambridge laboratory in the early 1940s

Thomas Sheridan as Cato
Thomas Sheridan, actor and father of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, in the title role of Joseph Addisons play " Cato"

Dorothea Jordan - 3
DOROTHEA JORDAN (nee Bland) actress and mistress of William IV; playing a travesti role in Wycherleys The plain dealer

Priscilla Kemble - 6
PRISCILLA KEMBLE (nee Hopkins) actress, later wife of John Philip Kemble : in the role of Miss Peggy in The country girl

Priscilla Kemble - 5
PRISCILLA KEMBLE (nee Hopkins) actress, later wife of John Philip Kemble : in the role of Lavinia in Shakespeares Titus Andronicus

Priscilla Kemble - 4
PRISCILLA KEMBLE (nee Hopkins) actress, later wife of John Philip Kemble : in the role of Aura in Johnsons The country lasses

Priscilla Kemble - 3
PRISCILLA KEMBLE (nee Hopkins) actress, later wife of John Philip Kemble : in the role of Miss Notable in Colley Cibbers The ladys last stake

Priscilla Kemble - 2
PRISCILLA KEMBLE (nee Hopkins) actress, later wife of John Philip Kemble : in the role of Irene in John Browns Barbarossa

Priscilla Kemble - 1
PRISCILLA KEMBLE (nee Hopkins) actress, later wife of John Philip Kemble : in the role of Arethusa in Beaumont & Fletchers Philaster

Bland as Madelon
MARIA THERESA BLAND (nee Romanzini) Italian-Jewish actress/ singer from age 4; in the travesti role of Madelon in George Colmans The surrender of Calais 1792

Ann Spranger Barry
ANN SPRANGER BARRY in the travesti role of sir Harry Wildair in George Farquhars The constant couple

Charles Kemble as Romeo
HARRIET SMITHSON - British actress in the role of Juliet with Charles Kemble as Romeo

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