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Florence Kahn (Lady Beerbohm) (born 3 March 1878 in Memphis, Tennessee – died 13 January 1951 in Rapallo, Italy) was a Jewish American actress and the first wife of caricaturist and parodist Sir Max Beerbohm. ==Acting career== Her father Louis Kahn was a German-Jewish immigrant from Baden who married Pauline Freiberg, a member of a prominent Cincinnati family.〔Mix, Katherine Lyon 'Max and the Americans' The Stephen Greene Press, Vermont (1974) 67 pg〕 He founded the dry goods firm of Kahn & Freiberg in Memphis in 1860 and was also an amateur Shakespeare scholar. Florence's brother Samuel Kahn became an editor of ''The Commercial Appeal'' in Memphis. She attended the Clara Conway Institute, a private school in Memphis, and had dancing lessons before going to a 'finishing school', which she left in June 1894. In 1895 she studied drama at Miss Grace Llewellyn's studio in Memphis. She also attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.〔Mix, op. cit pg 70〕〔Hall, N. John 'Max Beerbohm A Kind of a Life' Yale University Press (2002) pg 111 ISBN 0-300-09705-0〕 Florence Kahn appeared in the first American performance of Maeterlink's ''Intérieur'' in February 1896. On graduating in April 1897 she joined a touring company as the female lead in ''The Girl I Left Behind Me''. In Spring 1898 she played Lady de Winter in ''The Musketeers'' with Paul Gilmore in New York, and later on tour.〔Mix, op. cit. pg 70〕 Kahn appeared in New York in ''El Gran Galeoto'' by José Echegaray at the Carnegie Lyceum New York in 1899,〔(Kahn on the Internet Broadway Database )〕 and went on to become a well known Broadway actress noted for her roles in the plays of Ibsen.〔(Rintoul, M C 'Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction' Published by Routledge (1993) pg187 ISBN 0-415-05999-2 )〕〔(Don B. Wilmeth (Editor) and Tice L. Miller (Editor) 'Cambridge Guide to American Theatre' Published by Cambridge University Press pg 202 ISBN 0-521-40134-8 )〕 She played Hilda in the first performance of ''When We Dead Awaken'' in America which took place at the Carnegie Lyceum on January 16, 1900.〔(Kahn on Classic Reader website )〕 She also appeared in ''The Master Builder'' (1900) as Hilda Wangel.〔(The Works of Henrik Ibsen on The Internet Movie Database )〕 Of her performance in the latter ''The New York Times'' wrote: "The only notable feature of the performance was the acting of Miss Florence Kahn as the strange girl, Hilda Wangel, a healthy buoyant creature from the mountains, who still has a touch of the neurotic in her composition, and is united to the unhappy architect by a mystic bond: who invades his household as one answering a spiritual call, awakens the better side of his nature to a mood of self-revelation, and inspires him to a symbolical feat which causes his death. Kahn also appeared with the actor Richard Mansfield, as Chorus in Shakespeare's ''Henry V'' in 1900.〔('Richard Mansfield Triumphs as Warlike Harry. Good Acting and Splendid Pageantry in "Henry V." ' The New York Times October 4, 1900 )〕 She appeared in ''Don Caesar's Return'' by Victor Mapes at Wallack's Theatre in New York in 1901.〔 In March 1904 Kahn appeared as Rebecca West in Ibsen's ''Rosmersholm'', but the production was not a success and closed quickly, with Kahn receiving much of the blame: "She 'acted' always, not for a moment was she a live woman, least of all an Ibsen heroine. She waved across the stage and coiled upon the furniture, and when the crisis of passion ran highest she looked foolish and bleated.〔''The New York Times'' 29 March 1906〕 After the failure of ''Rosmersholm'' in New York, in 1904 she travelled to Great Britain with a letter of introduction to Max Beerbohm. Beerbohm became infatuated with Kahn and called on her regularly, taking her to meet his family. On her return to America in 1907 Kahn appeared in Ibsen's ''Hedda Gabler'' and ''Rosmersholm'' in New York's Lyric Theatre.〔〔(Mrs. Fiske as Rebecca West; Appears at the Lyric Theatre in Ibsen's Play of "Rosmersholm." The New York Times December 31, 1907 )〕 In February 1908 Kahn returned to Britain where she appeared as Rebecca West in Ibsen's ''Rosmersholm'', opening at Terry's Theatre.〔('Florence Kahn Makes A Hit in London' The New York Times February 11, 1908 )〕〔Hall, pg 119〕 She then toured Britain presenting a series of readings, on one occasion appearing before King Edward VII.〔(Florence Kahn to Wed?; Report That Actress Will Become Bride of Max Beerbohm ''The New York Times'' May 2, 1910 )〕 It was during this tour that she was courted by Beerbohm and they became engaged in 1908. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Florence Kahn (actress)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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