Word: acted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There are also more cheerful moments in our lives," as she put it. "Once I was taking the part of Marguerete in 'Faust'; the performance was in Montreal and I had been given a beautiful fancy petticoat to wear. Well, I have to kneel down and pray in one act there, and my heel caught in that beautifully complicated lace netting. When I started to get up, the lace began in tear and this impromptu tail trailed after me as I strode across the stage. The audience was laughing, they had seen the predicament I was in, so, keeping...
...This Woman Business" is good farce, rarely overacted, and better than "The Ghost Train". The first act, a medley of devices for stalling for time, is ideally suited to the risibilities of any audience, including the Elizabethan. Harvard men will be interested in an attempt to put on the stage in musical comedy plot two characters of embarrassing resemblance to prominent members of the English Department...
...competition is open to all members in the University, and is divided into three departments. They are vocal, specialty act, and instrumental. The vocal work consists of group singing; the specialty acts are usually given by magicians, ventriloquists, and musical artists; and the instrumental department is open to players of any type of instrument...
Equipped with gentle batteries of wit. industriously served by Louis Calhern and a good cast the play pleased a minority. Its final tragic act fitted badly the irresponsible beginning...
...theft; but before the case reaches court, it becomes obvious that the true culprit is vapid young John Barthwick Jr. who, in a state of supreme inebriation, had been assisted into his father's home by Mr. Jones, thereby allowing the latter the opportunity for his theft. The last act, a trial scene, allows rich young Barthwick to go unpunished for this and more serious misdemeanors while Mr. Jones is sentenced to a month of hard labor...