Wilson Barrett
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Wilson Barrett was an English manager, actor, and playwright. With his company, Barrett is credited with attracting the largest crowds of English theatregoers ever because of his success with melodram
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Barrett's production of Claudian at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
Poster for Hoodman blind
Wilson Barrett and Maud Jeffries: The Sign of the Cross (1895)
Maud Jeffries
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Maud Evelyn Craven Jeffries was an American actress. A popular subject for a wide range of theatrical post-cards and studio photographs, she was noted for her height, voice, presence, graceful figure,
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…which Barrett played Marcus Superbus, an old Roman patrician of the years of Nero, who falls in love with a young woman, Mercia (originally played by Maud Jeffries) and converts to Christianity for her, both sacrificing their lives in the arena to the lions. The plot in some ways strongly resembles the contemporary…
Maud Evelyn Craven Jeffries
Photo of Maud Jeffries as seen in the Black and White Budget, 20 October 1900.
Maud Jeffries (1891)