Description: Court Square Theatre Springfield MassachusettsOctober 4-6, 1926 King LearMerchant of VeniceAs You Like ItJulius Caesar Robert Bruce Mantell (7 February 1854 – 27 June 1928) was a noted Shakespearean stage actor who made several silent films. His mother was Elizabeth Bruce Mantell who objected to her son becoming an actor so he used the name Robert Hudson early in his career. Born in Scotland and raised in Dublin, he travelled to the United States in 1874, but stayed only two weeks with no theatrical success. He returned in 1878 in support of Helena Modjeska but did not stay. In 1883 he found success on Broadway supporting Fanny Davenport as her leading man in Fedora. For the remainder of his theatrical career he played Shakespeare and high class drama. He married several times, and often performed with his wives in Shakespearean productions. His last wife, Genevieve Hamper (1888–1971), was 35 years his junior. Genevieve Hamper (September 8, 1888 – February 13, 1971) was an American stage and screen actress. Hamper began performing Shakespeare as a teenager. She often appeared in early silent films and on stage with her much older first husband Robert B. Mantell. They headed the Robert Mantell-Genevieve Hamper Shakespearean Repertoire Company.] After Mantell's death, in October 1928 she married actor John Alexander,[ and she retired from the stage. Hamper worked for the Fox Film Corporation, including portraying Claire in The Green-Eyed Monster (1916).[7] In 1929, Hamper directed her own Shakespearean company that presented plays in venues including the Metropolitan Theater in Minneapolis. She rehearsed actors at Woodcrest, her country estate in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. Her directing approach included reducing or eliminating "the ranting and sonorous mouthing treatment of characters" while still delivering the essence of each play to the audience. She felt that the calmer approach would be favored by audiences that had become accustomed to films. Hamper died at the Sanger Nursing Home in New York City in 1971, aged 82From Wikipedia
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