Starring Madame Modjeska, on tour in Poland and America, Beth Holmgren
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Starring Madame Modjeska, on tour in Poland and America, Beth Holmgren
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Starring Madame Modjeska
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Beth Holmgren
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on tour in Poland and America
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In 1876, Poland's leading actress, Helena Modrzejewska, accompanied by her husband, the self-stylized Count Bozente, immigrated to southern California to give up her career and establish a utopian commune. In light of its failings, it hardly fulfilled the real dreams of Madame Helena. Within a year, she changed her surname to Modjeska, and made her American debut at San Francisco's California Theatre. Godmother to Ethel Barrymore, and sharing the Shakespearian stage with such luminaries as Otis Skinner, Edwin Booth, and Maurice Barrymore, Helena Modjeska became the leading star in the United States, where she reigned for the next thirty years
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