"Duse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... know you couldn't help it. Of course you couldn't help it. That's just it—you never expected the man. I went to lunch with another liar last week—I beg your pardon, Miss Belvoir—who asked me to meet Duse. She was so sorry she couldn't come at the last minute. She sent a telegram. Well, all I ask is, ...
— Bird of Paradise • Ada Leverson
... about New York. It was dirty and noisy and breathless and ghastly expensive. But compared with the moldy academy in which I had been smothered——! I went to symphonies twice a week. I saw Irving and Terry and Duse and Bernhardt, from the top gallery. I walked in Gramercy Park. ...
— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis
... Gold. "If I could do that I wouldn't be buying lingerie and infants' wear for Schiffs'. I'd be crowding Duse and Bernhardt and Mrs. ...
— Cheerful—By Request • Edna Ferber
... a sexless thing. It transcends sex. Theodore Roosevelt was a compelling personality, and his force and ability were recognized by his friends and enemies alike while the public, the masses, adored him without knowing why. Sarah Bernhardt, Eleanor Duse, and Mary Garden carry with them a force far more potent in its appeal to the public than their mere feminine charm. They hold their public by personality. It is not trickery, but art, ...
— The Art of Lawn Tennis • William T. Tilden, 2D |
