Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following will act as ushers under the leadership of A. H. O'Neil, Head Usher, J. N. Barbee; Dudley Bell; H. W. Brandon; L. D. Brayton; W. N. Bump; H. W. Burna; J. P. Chase; Henry Chauncoy; J. P. Crosby; Langdon Dearborn; A. O. Fordyce; E. B. Jackson; V. O. Jones; W. B. Jones; Joseph Morrill Jr; William Mulford; P. H. Nitxe; Edward Page Jr.; W. C. Peet Jr.; J. L. Pool; C. A. Pratt Jr.; W. G. Saltonstall; R. W. Sawyer; Daniel Simonds 2nd; R. W. Turner; John Watts; W. H. White
...Boston Stage Society has agreed to produce any worthy one act plays writen by members of the Harvard Playwrights Guild. It was also announced last night that at future meetings of the Guild, members of the English Department or prominent theatrical persons will attend to offer criticism of the plays written and read by the members...
...Charlot said that any act in revue, no matter how good the script is valueless without an actor whose personality will put it across. There are two kinds of shows, one that is played to a passive audience, and another that demands its hearers to meet it half way. The former type is passing, because it serves no purpose and has no effect on the audience, but give it idle pleasure...
...factory girl, come to Manhattan to spend her $6,000 for a furtive smack of city life. The exploiter of women, duped by her reckless display, rushes into matrimony only to find he has caught a liability instead of an asset. And here is the end of the second act, with the playwright-actor of his own U. S. comedy still unworthy in the sight of the audience. How to reveal a heart of gold in the bad man? A powder mill explodes. Heroic qualities erupt. With nobility thus suddenly emergent, the ending triumphs happily for all, including the audience...
Stark Love depicts customs and manners of sequestered mountain folk, North Carolina. Director and Author Karl Brown got them to act their primitive lives before his camera. The natives use no makeup, register no artful emotions. Men sleep, hunt, fish, sleep. Women hoe, bear children, scrub dishes, chop wood, cook, clean, bear children. The men live longer. The mere projection of such crude civilization, the knowledge that it still persists among lineal descendants of American settlers is enough to make the film's substance fascinating...