Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sheik; George M. Cohan, the Irish jigamarig, writer of buck-and-wing dips; George Gershwin, ingenius, musicianly; Jerome Kern, melodist; Tintinnabulator Zev Confrey, who wrote Kitten-on-the-Keys. But more important than any of this company is a certain Israel Baline who took the name of an English actor and a German city, became known to the public as Irving Berlin. For the last ten years, he has written a national anthem a year. His prodigality has never been approached and he has written at least three songs?Alexander's Ragtime Band, Everybody Step, Pack Up Your Sins? which...
...GUARDSMAN−Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne and the Theatre Guild cast cooperate to make a slender Molnar comedy of off-stage actor life a distinguished entertainment...
Does not an actor contribute as much to the needs of mankind as the expert manager of a tack factory...
...assume that the drama is recognized as an invaluable adjunct to society and such an assumption is a tacit admission of the importance of the actor. For without the actor there can be no play. And without capable interpretation by the actor the play loses its effect, and, thereby, whatever justification it had for its existence. And capable interpretation, just like playwriting, is partly a matter of genius, and partly a matter of training. The numerous schools of acting now existent in New York are a distinct admission of this fact by a supercilious Broadway which has scoffed at college...
...Does not an actor contribute as much to the needs of mankind as the expert manager of a tack factory...