Claude Marius (Claude Marius Duplany)
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Claude Marius (Claude Marius Duplany)
by Albert John Deneulain, published by Strand Publishing Company
carbon print, published 1 June 1888
4 1/4 in. x 3 1/2 in. (108 mm x 89 mm) image size
Purchased, 1980
Photographs Collection
NPG Ax9317
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- Claude Marius (Claude Marius Duplany) (1850-1896), Actor, singer and stage manager. Sitter in 5 portraits.
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- Albert John Deneulain (1848-1923), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 2 portraits.
- Strand Publishing Company (active late 1880s), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 50 portraits.
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- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (photographer's studio, 147 Strand, London)
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Current affairs
Charles Ritchie, President of the Local Government Board, is responsible for the Local Government Act, a landmark piece of reform that establishes 62 elected county councils and over sixty county boroughs, with responsibility for roads, bridges, drains and general county business.Five prostitutes are murdered, and their bodies mutilated, in Whitechapel, East London, by an unidentified killer who became known as 'Jack the Ripper'. The murderer was never discovered.
Art and science
Heinrich Hertz performs experiments validating James Clark Maxwell's model of electromagnetic radiation, a form of wireless energy transfer. His apparatus for generating electromagnetic waves is recognised as the first radio transmitter.The term 'arts and crafts' is coined by the bookbinder T J Cobden-Sanderson with the establishment of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society.
International
Accession of Kaiser Wilhelm II to the German throne. Wilhelm, the son of Kaiser Frederick III and Victoria, daughter of Queen Victoria, was the last Kaiser of Germany.George Eastman invents the Kodak box camera, the first commercially successful box camera for roll film, with the slogan 'you press the button - we do the rest'.
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Richard Duployen
02 July 2019, 16:29
CLAUDE MARIUS DUPLANY
was born in Paris in 1850. He briefly played chorus and bit parts there. Through a contact he arrived in London in 1869.
He appeared at the Lyceum in principal roles (Hervé's operettas "Chilpéric" and "Little Faust"*) earning the nickname Monsieur Marius.
He returned to his native land to fight in the Franco-Prussian War.
He was back in London in 1872, played sometimes Charles Martel sometimes Drogan in Offenbach's "Genevieve de Brabant". As well as the latter travesti role usually played by a woman he had played Siébel*. He appeared as many other characters.
He was one of Florence St. John's four husbands & played Favart opposite her title role in Offenbach's "Madame Favart" adapted by Farnie. It was even more successful than the French premiere.
There is a photograph of him disguised in livery with his little bell.
Trainee chefs, then tapestry makers interrupt the lecherous Marquis.
"FAVART (sung) Ce n'est pas moi "It isn't me
Ce qui les fit venir, je crois. Who made them come, I think.
C'est ma petite sonnette It's my little bell
Ma sonnette mignonette" My sweet little bell" Act ll Scene 10