Playing to the Gods
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Duse’s trips to and performances in, 107, 109, 169, 198
Vierge d’Avila, La (Mendès), 211–12, 220
Visconti, Luchino, 235
Vivekananda, Swami, 127–28
Voltaire, 32, 194
Wagner, Richard, 137, 161, 167
Wagram, 181–84, 190
Wakeman, Edgar L., 42–43
Wales, Prince of, 1
Washington, D.C., 128–29
Washington Post, 129
Weaver, William, 19
Wilde, Oscar, 1, 46, 48, 96–98, 207
Wilhelm II, kaiser of Germany, 215
Wilson, Woodrow, 221
Winter Palace, 89
Wolkoff, Count Alexander, 88–89
Women in Russian Theatre (Schuler), 91
World War I, 191, 215–23, 228–30, 233, 236–37
Worth, Jean-Philippe, 148–49
Yeats, W. B., 212
Zola, Émile, 103, 184–86
Zukor, Adolph, 213
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