Forbes-Robertson
Americannoun
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There are a dozen Forbes-Robertson mouths to feed and Johnston, the eldest, though speedily mastering his painting, cannot refuse a salaried part in Mary, Queen o' Scots at the Princess Theatre.
From Time Magazine Archive
Forbes-Robertson supports Henry Irving in Much Ado About Nothing, also painting for Irving the church scene that hangs today in the Players' Club, N. Y.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are the touchstones of dramatic art, and no one who cares about the the ater utters their names without awe: Forbes-Robertson, Barrymore, Gielgud and Olivier.
From Time Magazine Archive
True to tradition, play-reviewers threw down their programs, rushed to their form books to weigh Mr. Gielgud's worth against every Hamlet from Barrymore, Forbes-Robertson and Irving to Booth and Burbadge.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have seen many Hamlets,—Fechter, Charles Kean, Rossi, Friedrich Haase, Forbes-Robertson, and my own son, Gordon Craig, among them,—but they were not in the same hemisphere!
From Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors by Iles, George
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