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“I played the grave-digger in ‘Hamlet,’
first, at the age of seven.
They gave me the chance
to play Shakespeare
because nobody else
of the tender age of seven
would do so.
They wouldn’t say
the rather amazing words…
the other kiddies.
I took it all quite seriously
and said ALL the words
without a quiver.Once I had begun
I could not be stopped.
I was ill
when I was not on the stage.
It seemed to me
I couldn’t breathe
in any other atmosphere.”“I’m the greatest actress
in the world
and the
greatest failure.And nobody gives a damn.”
Jeane Eagels
This post, its sentiments and its glorious photograph captured by the famed Baron Adolph de Meyer, featuring former Ziegfield Follies girl and Broadway actress, Jeanne Eagels, is taken from the wonderfully enchanting blog, Silent Storyteller. I think it perfectly approximates how I might view the pose, stance, and insouciant glamor of the wonderfully gifted blogger, herself, on reaching this day of just over one hundred thousand hits to her site in under a year’s time.
It is with real pleasure, warmth and the least bit of proprietary pride (when bloggers were playing that round robin game of favored blogs sometime last year, SS was one of my prized nominations) that I feature the delightful, and like EA, appositely named, Silent Storyteller. Well deserved dear Ellis.
Dearest EA, What an incredible surprise to find this post. You are so kind, and have been such an important part of my online community. You are a constant source of thoughtful inspiration and an essential part of my knowledge and pleasure feed. Thank you so much! Eilis
Part of the beauty of blogs is finding those with similar sensibilities — often more elusive in the real world. I had found SS through you some time back and find that the image you have chosen today perfectly demonstrates the well defined poetry of her world.