Lying here before, I believed the voice I heard was telling me the truth and that I was lying on this bed, with my eyes closed, not in 1971 but in 1896. She returned to the stage twice: in 1931 to play Portia in The Merchant of Venice and in 1934 to play Maria in Twelfth Night.I remember. When she retired from the stage in 1918, she focused on perfecting stage lighting and became interested in color photography for motion pictures. Among her many other successes were roles in L’Aiglon, Chantecler, and The Jesters.įor years Miss Adams not only performed in New York but also took many of her productions on tour along the East Coast and abroad.

She met with incredible success as Lady Babbie and went on to become the quintessential Barrie heroine in What Every Woman Knows, Quality Street, The Legend of Leonora, and, of course, Peter Pan. Miss Adams eventually became John Drew’s leading lady, made a great hit in The Masked Ball, and was fortuitously cast in J.M. In 1890, both mother and daughter joined a new stock company at New York’s Empire Theatre. From 1877-1887 she played children’s roles in twenty-six plays. Maude was only a few months old when she made her stage debut during one of her mother’s performances. Her parents were James Kiskadden and stock actress Annie Adams. Maude (Kiskadden) Adams was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on November 11, 1872. I would have been formed, you see.' Maude Adams from Maude Adams by Acton Davis, 1911 edition

If I had gone to school as they wanted me to until now, I couldn't bend myself to the life as I do now. 'I believe the only way to study for the stage is on the stage. That the past is not the simpler, happier time he thought it would be. Wistful and sentimental longing for an escape to the past - only to discover Mood very similar to that of Finney's Time And Again - a somewhat Also, What Dreams May Come which inspired the movie starring Robin Williams. He also authored the novels The Incredible Shrinking Man, I Am Legend,and Hell House, all of which were made into classic Sci Fi/horror films. Matheson is well known for his many novels, short stories and television and movie screenplays. Richard Matheson also wrote the screenplay for the 1980 film titled Somewhere in Time starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. By the strength of his love and desire, Collier manages to will himself back in time to find Elise. Here he sees a photograph of Elise McKenna, star actress from the turn of the century, and falls in love. Following a sudden, inexplicable urge to escape his life, Collier finds himself checking into a grand old seaside hotel. In Bid Time Return, Richard Collier is a writer dying of an inoperable brain tumor.

Somewhere in time by richard matheson