Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clive is Well-Known Actor...
...delighted to see this undergraduate interest. Better criticism goes hand-in-glove with better acting. The actor needs that criticism and I see your contest from the actor's point of view. My task is to improve the opportunities for undergraduates on the stage, your's to improve his opportunities in the critic's seat...
...which will be organized at 3.05 this afternoon in Harvard 1. The speakers are Roland Young, star in "Beggar on Horseback", who will speak on "Audiences", and Wallace Eddinger, leading man in "Spin-Drift", who will discuss the annual scholarship which he is sponsoring for Harvard's most promising actor...
Married. Nora Bayes (real name Dora Goldberg), actress, to Benjamin L. Friedland, garage man; by Captain, Herbert Hartley, on board his ship, the Leviathan, en route for Europe. He is Miss Bayes' fifth husband. The others : 1) C. A. Gressing, Chicago business man; 2) Jack Norworth, actor; 3) Harry Clarke, onetime dancing partner; 4) Arthur Gordon, actor. She has been once a widow, thrice divorced...
...Criticism, nowadays, doesn't mean too much. No actor can please all the critics. But I'll venture that if all American critics were brought to one performance of my play, I could please 90 per cent of them. Most actors, however, don't read criticisms for any reason except that they are vain, and the critic praises them because it makes his job more pleasant than censure would...