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Putting it even more high-mindedly, ought one not to prefer an author like Eliot, who really did give her whole enormous mind to religious and social and colonial questions, over a vain actor-manager type who used pathetic victims as tear-jerking raw material, and who actually detested the real subjects of High Victorian power and hypocrisy when they were luckless enough to dwell overseas?

The Dark Side of Dickens 2010

Putting it even more high-mindedly, ought one not to prefer an author like Eliot, who really did give her whole enormous mind to religious and social and colonial questions, over a vain actor-manager type who used pathetic victims as tear-jerking raw material, and who actually detested the real subjects of High Victorian power and hypocrisy when they were luckless enough to dwell overseas?

The Dark Side of Dickens 2010

THE OPERA HOUSE FILEBorn 1728, when the actor-manager John Rich commissioned John Gay to write The Beggar's Opera and did so well from it, he could afford to put up the theatre.

The Royal Opera House: Welcome to the new people's palace | Observer Profile 2011

Putting it even more high-mindedly, ought one not to prefer an author like Eliot, who really did give her whole enormous mind to religious and social and colonial questions, over a vain actor-manager type who used pathetic victims as tear-jerking raw material, and who actually detested the real subjects of High Victorian power and hypocrisy when they were luckless enough to dwell overseas?

The Dark Side of Dickens 2010

At some point the view settled that Harold Macmillan – one of our longest-serving Old Etonian prime ministers (1957-63) – was a consummate actor-manager rather than a serious, constructive politician, let alone statesman.

Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan by DR Thorpe – review David Kynaston 2010

Putting it even more high-mindedly, ought one not to prefer an author like Eliot, who really did give her whole enormous mind to religious and social and colonial questions, over a vain actor-manager type who used pathetic victims as tear-jerking raw material, and who actually detested the real subjects of High Victorian power and hypocrisy when they were luckless enough to dwell overseas?

The Dark Side of Dickens 2010

The guests at Baron d ' Holbach ' s twice-weekly salons were called " wicked company " by British actor-manager David Garrick, who frequented the salons during two sojourns in Paris in the 1760s.

The Zealotry Of Free Thinkers Michael Burleigh 2010

Certainly William Fay, an electric light fitter, who was also an actor of genius, had some experience, for he had toured Ireland in a company with a negro actor-manager; and his brother, Frank Fay, was learned in the history of the stage, and fond of reciting poetry.

Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

The French actor-manager Edmond La Grange was preparing a new production of Hamlet and suggested to Oscar that he might like to assist him with the translation.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

When his dressing-room door was open, from the mirror on his dressing-room table the great actor-manager could command a clear view of the centre of the stage.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009