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    Hermann Vezin (March 2, 1829 – June 12, 1910) was an American actor, teacher of elocution and writer. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and educated...
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  • Vezin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Frederick Vezin (1859–1933), American painter, etcher and lithographer Hermann Vezin (1829–1910)...
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    his uncle, the actor Hermann Vezin, and his brother, Charles Vezin (1858–1942), also a painter. During his childhood and youth, Vezin frequently travelled...
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    George Grossmith's Bunthorne in Patience. Benson then studied with Hermann Vezin and was encouraged by Ellen Terry, who persuaded Henry Irving to take...
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  • descended from the LaRue family and the Joquen and DuFour families. Hermann Vezin (1829–1910), American actor. Isaac Watts (1674–1748), hymnwriter ("When...
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    Conservatoire under Coquelin aine and Louis-Arsène Delaunay, and with Hermann Vezin in London. Fogerty went on to teach English and Elocution at the Crystal...
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    opened at the Haymarket Theatre in London on 11 September 1876, starring Hermann Vezin, Johnston Forbes-Robertson and Marion Terry. The play was a success...
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    Jane Elizabeth Vezin (née Thomson; 24 February 1829 – 17 April 1902) was a British actress. She was born while her mother was on tour in England in 1829...
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    variety of shows, but despite appearances by stars such as J. L. Toole, Hermann Vezin and the young Nellie Farren, they made little impact. A succession of...
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    comedies, such as F. C. Burnand's The Turn of the Tide (1869, starring Hermann Vezin and George Rignold with Hodson), historical dramas, such as Tom Taylor's...
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  • the Savoy Theatre in 1882 (with Gilbert playing Florian, alongside Hermann Vezin as Mousta, after an accident incapacitated the actor who was originally...
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    everybody else"; it was produced at the Lyceum on 9 November 1861, starring Hermann Vezin, and ran for 346 nights. Two days after Falconer's play opened, Our...
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    (b. 1940), Ernest Thesiger (1879–1961), Margaret Tyzack (1931–2011), Hermann Vezin (1829–1910), Peggy Ann Wood (1912–1998), and Susannah York (1939–2011)...
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    followed by appearances with the companies of Henry James Byron and Mrs Hermann Vezin. From 1877 to 1879 Compton toured the United Kingdom in the company...
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    by W. G. Wills of The Vicar of Wakefield, alongside Ellen Terry and Hermann Vezin. Among other roles, especially in melodrama, in the late 1870s, he was...
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    Essex. He was educated at Denstone in Staffordshire. He was a pupil of Hermann Vezin. Holloway began his stage career in 1899 as a boy in the production...
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    followed and an address in rhyme, "delivered with much eloquence by Mrs. Hermann Vezin". The reviewer was struck by the "extremely pretty scenery" and praised...
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    Samson Rawbold in The Iron Chest, Farmer Flamborough in Olivia (opposite Hermann Vezin as Dr. Primrose), Jock Howieson in The King and the Miller (1890 and...
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    when Fanny was just 11 years old. Beere was trained for the stage by Hermann Vezin, appearing first in London at the Opera Comique in 1877. Later she played...
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    included the veteran actor Samuel Phelps and such other notable actors as Hermann Vezin, Kyrle Bellew and Lionel Brough, produced revivals of classic English...
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    professionally from at least 1892, when he appeared as a member of the Hermann Vezin Theatre Company in supporting roles in Hamlet and Macbeth at Her Majesty's...
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    January 21, 1953) was an English actress. She studied for the stage under Hermann Vezin. She made her debut at Manchester in 1892 under her own name of Florence...
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    Ticket-of-Leave Man, and in the same year, she appeared in Man o' Airlie with Hermann Vezin. Also in 1870, she created the part of Katie Maguire in Inisfallen by...
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    sufficient vocal talent, pursued acting instead. She studied under Hermann Vezin and debuted at the Gaiety Theatre in 1883. Beerbohm Tree cast her in...
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    Bachelors, an adaptation from the German by Robert Williams Buchanan and Hermann Vezin. Gwynne retired from the stage following the birth of her daughter (Dorothy)...
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    but when the play opened at the Haymarket Theatre in September 1876, Hermann Vezin took the title role instead of Sothern, in a cast featuring the young...
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    Remus, both by Robert Reece, in 1874. She then appeared as Ida in Hermann Vezin's production of David Garrick Bishop's most famous stage role was Violet...
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  • England, Jane met and acted alongside the noted Shakespearian actor Hermann Vezin, whom she married three months after her divorce from Charles Young...
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    In the following year at the same theatre he produced Cora, with Mrs Hermann Vezin in the title role. In 1878 at the Criterion Theatre he appeared as Greythorne...
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    her studies in London. She went to Hermann Vezin's School of Acting to learn elocution; in his later years Vezin gave lessons to aspiring actors, including...
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