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Forbes-Robertson
[ fawrbz-rob-ert-suhn ]
noun
- Sir Johnston, 1853鈥1937, English actor and theatrical manager.
Example Sentences
As Lucy Delap, Maria DiCenzo, and Leila Ryan write in Feminism and the Periodical Press, 1900-1918, quoting the Anglo-American actress Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale: "In the United States, New York 'advanced feminists' referred to their husbands as 'fellow-feminists,' and welcomed the 'new man': 'every son born to a feminist, and every man married to one, has the opportunity to develop into the new type.'"
If an actor like Forbes-Robertson gives a farewell performance of Hamlet, or a manager like Beerbohm Tree produces a patriotic melodrama, or the company from the Th茅芒tre Fran莽ais perform one of the rare classics that the young person may be taken to, I have seen a London theatre filled with school girls and boys.
Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson was wise enough to use nearly all this music in his fine production.
Edward German composed the whole of the music for Forbes-Robertson's production of Romeo and Juliet at the Lyceum, September 1895, and also dedicated it to him.
Modjeska and Mr. Forbes-Robertson were, I believe, at the Court, Dion Boucicault's play, "The Shaughraun," was running at the Adelphi鈥攐r, stay, was this old house of melodrama then the home of "The Danites"?
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