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Rosa Damasceno
''Rosa Damasceno'' (18451904) was a 19th-century Portuguese actor. Early life Rosa Angélica Damasceno Rosado Brazão, was born on 23 February 1845 in the parish of São Pedro da Cova in the north of Portugal. She was the daughter of Francisco de Paula Damasceno Rosado, a military man from Porto and his second wife, Maria da Conceição de Macedo, who had been born in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon. After her father's early death, she went with her mother to the southerly Alentejo region, where she joined a travelling company as an actress. Together with this company she performed at several provincial theatres, until Marcolino Pinto Ribeiro, a former actor at the D. Maria II National Theatre, seeing her perform, advised her and her mother to go to Lisbon. Acting career Her presence in Lisbon reached the ears of businessman, Francisco Palha, who was soon to open the new ''Teatro da Trindade''. She made her professional debut on the first night of the ''Trindade'', 30 Novemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fânzeres E São Pedro Da Cova
Fânzeres e São Pedro da Cova is a civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ... in the municipality of Gondomar, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Fânzeres and São Pedro da Cova. The population in 2011 was 39,586,Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE) Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal in an area of 21.96 km². References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Capus
Alfred Capus (25 November 18581 November 1922) was a French journalist and playwright, who was born in Aix-en-Provence and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Biography Son of a lawyer from Marseille, Alfred Capus went to university in Toulon. After failing several entrance tests for higher-education schools and working as a draughtsman for a while, he went on to become a journalist. One of his first articles was an obituary of Darwin.Barrett H. Clark (1915), ''Contemporary French Dramatists,'' Stewart & Kidd Company, Cincinnati, page 139 He went on to write humorous pieces for papers such as '' Gaulois'', ''L'Écho de Paris'' and ''L'Illustration''. He also wrote for ''Le Figaro'', under the penname of ''Graindorge''. In 1914, he became the editor of '' Figaro''. During the First World War he wrote stridently patriotic pieces. On 12 February 1914, he became a member of the Académie française. Work and themes In 1878, in collaboration with L. Vonoven, he published a volume of short s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century Portuguese Actresses
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Portuguese Stage Actresses
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