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Modjeska

American  
[maw-jes-kuh] / mɔˈdʒɛs kə /

noun

  1. Helena Helena Opid Modrzejewska, 1840–1909, Polish actress, in U.S. after 1876.


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The Orange County Sheriff’s Department issued a voluntary evacuation warning Tuesday morning for Silverado Canyon, Williams Canyon and Modjeska in the Bond fire burn area.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2022

The Polish operatic actress Helena Modjeska founded a 19th-century utopian colony in Anaheim, but it foundered, in no small part because of immoderate weather, like the wind.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2021

Next up is creating a new interpretive frame at the Modjeska Monteith Simkins home.

From Washington Times • Jan. 5, 2020

Stage right: The remarkable California immigrant story of Helena Modjeska.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2017

Modjeska and Mr. Forbes-Robertson were, I believe, at the Court, Dion Boucicault's play, "The Shaughraun," was running at the Adelphi—or, stay, was this old house of melodrama then the home of "The Danites"?

From Far Off Things by Machen, Arthur

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