Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stage in this country has had a long youth and a great opportunity for experimentation. It has prospered through the ability of the actors to fall on their feet. Until recent years the great majority of the players have had little education outside the rough and tumble school of the theatre. Through such a life the actor has broadened surprisingly...
...difficulty faced by the actors entrusted with the two main parts are considerable. Miss Frances Small gives a finely poised performance. Her emotional moments seemed to me not so convincing as the more subtle and colder meets. But her playing throughout is unusually satisfying. Mr. Eduardo Sanchez, essentially a capable and vigorous actor, will not come off quite so well with an even more difficult task. His tendency is a trifle toward conscious poetry in the reading of the lines. Perhaps a simple reading would be more effective...
...Night Club. Raymond Griffith is just about to burst out as one of our chief comedians. He is not cross-eyed, his feet are mates, he does not hide behind a beard, his clothes fit. He is an actor who can eat up a funny situation without spilling it on his vest. 'The Night Club is an aimless burlesque . through which he wears a high silk hat. Though the plot is not vital, what there is of it deals with a will whereby the happy bachelor must marry a cer tain girl...
...GUARDSMAN-A slight and yet significant discussion by Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne of how good an actor must be to deceive his own wife...
Divorced. Richard Bennett, actor, by Mrs. Mabel Morrison Bennett (Adrienne Morrison, actress); in Manhattan. She charged misconduct. The Bennetts have lived apart for some time, to give their temperaments free play...