July 27, 2026
Tag: Onteora
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The Maud Adams You Don’t Know
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Maude Adams (not Maud Adams the Bond Girl, she doesn’t have the “e”) was an astonishingly successful stage actor who burst onto the New York stage in 1896 with J. M. Barrie’s The Little Minister and in 1905 played the title role in Barrie’s Peter Pan. Alphonse Mucha painted her. She toured with her own…
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August 18, 2022 3 Comments
George Brill, one of America’s most admired illustrators, thanked his teachers for his education. “Without them,” he said, “I would be drawing 10¢ cartoons in Sunday newspapers.” He became a wealthy man using his art skills, but he had a softer side, too! Here are the Ginks.