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Vir 1n1a Woo /\isce an Number 2 Spring 1974 paint Modesty at the feet of Mammon. His young wife, Ellen THE AMERICAN PREMIERE OF "FRESHWATER" Terry, poses as Modesty. Soon after the play's opening, Alfred Tennyson strides into the room and begins to read Maud in his On March 3, 1974, the Stanford Museum of Art sonorous tones. At length, Ellen Terry, weary of posing, presented Virginia Woolf's "Freshwater," a playful spoof abandons her model's throne, and, after a bit of amusing and about her great-aunt, Julia Margaret Cameron. Anita Ventura suggestive dialogue with Tennyson, rushes off, apparently to Mozley, Registrar and Curator of Photography, received keep a rendezvous with a young man. Watts, who has Angelica Garnett's kind permission to give a private staged continued to paint despite the loss of his model, triumphantly reading of the play in conjunction with the museum's finishes the great toe of Mammon. But he suddenly discovers, exhibition of Julia Cameron's photographs. much to his chagrin, that he has seriously blundered. As the According to Quentin Bell (Virginia Woolf; a Biography, chorus chants, at the close of the act, he has made the·veil of New York: Harcourt, 1972, p. 424), the play was first Modesty symbolize the fertility offish. performed in Vanessa Bell's studio, 8 Fitzroy Street, London. The second act, set at the seaside, depicts Ellen Terry's The actors then were: Mrs. Cameron, Vanessa Bell; Mr. decision to leave her aged husband and her life as an artist's Cameron, Leonard Woolf; Alfred Tennyson, Julian Bell; Ellen model and to run off with her young man, the naval officer, Terry, Angelica Bell; G.
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