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Trilby
Trilby (1895), a play by Paul M. Potter. [Garden Theatre, 208 perf.] Three artists, known as the Laird ( John Glendinning), Taffy ( Burr McIntosh), and Little Billee ( Alfred Hickman), use a pretty model, Trilby O'Ferrall ( Virginia Harned), for work in their Latin Quarter atelier. But after a fight with Billee, Trilby leaves and is befriended by the strange genius Svengali ( Wilton Lackaye), who uses his hypnotic powers to turn the girl into a great opera singer. Billee recognizes her at a performance and asks her to abandon Svengali and marry him, but she refuses. However, when Svengali suddenly dies, Trilby's voice deserts her. She is reunited with Billee briefly, but her exertions under Svengali's influence, coupled with the traumatic release from them, prove too much and she withers and dies. Based on the novel by George du Maurier, the adaptation was one of the greatest and more memorable successes of its era. The play was frequently revived, including a notable restaging in 1938 by Walter Hampden. It also provided the source for a musical that closed during its tryout, The Studio Girl (1927).
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Trilby." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Trilby." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-Trilby.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Trilby." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-Trilby.html |
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Trilby
Trilby, a novel written and illustrated by George du Maurier, published 1894.
The setting of the story reflects the writer's years as an art student in Paris. The charming Trilby O'Ferrall, an artist's model, slowly falls under the spell of Svengali, a German-Polish musician, who establishes her as a famous singer. His power over her is such that when he dies her voice collapses, she loses her eminence, languishes, and finally dies herself. Trilby's hat is the origin of the ‘trilby’. |
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Trilby." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Trilby." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Trilby.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Trilby." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Trilby.html |
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Trilby
Trilby name of the heroine of George du Maurier's eponymous novel (1894), a beautiful artist's model who becomes a successful singer under the tutelage of Svengali. The trilby hat, a soft felt hat with a narrow brim and indented crown, is named for her, as such a hat was worn in the stage version, and in the first part of the 20th century feet were informally known as trilbies, as du Maurier's heroine was admired for her feet.
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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Trilby." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Trilby." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-Trilby.html ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Trilby." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-Trilby.html |
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trilby man's soft felt hat; (pl.) bare feet. XIX. Name of the heroine of the novel ‘Trilby’ (1893), by George du Maurier, as applied to a kind of hat used in the dramatized version, and to the heroine's use of bare feet.
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T. F. HOAD. "trilby." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "trilby." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-trilby.html T. F. HOAD. "trilby." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-trilby.html |
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trilby
tril·by / ˈtrilbē/ • n. (pl. -bies) chiefly Brit. a soft felt hat with a narrow brim and indented crown. |
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"trilby." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "trilby." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-trilby.html "trilby." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-trilby.html |
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"trilby." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "trilby." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-trilby.html "trilby." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-trilby.html |
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