Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vadis. Italy herewith put in a bid for cinema consideration. To assist their bid, they hired Emil Jannings, the most distinguished picture actor on the Continent, and used Rome for background. Jannings played Nero. Characteristically, his performance was intelligent and distinctive. He gave the Emperor a judicious mixture of viciousness and humor. Otherwise, the film was inconspicuous. There were a great many actors and a good deal of scenery, but the swift smoothness of Hollywood was lacking...
...pitiful handful, young men from Harvard. Yale, and Princeton, who have very apparent ability. That ability of theirs is four parts flair for the theatre, perhaps, but it is six parts intelligence, and intelligence may be cultivated. It would mean the stage millenium if it might be given the actor, or its lack revealed to him in a school before he makes one more in the stage struck multitude...
...puzzle to me that President Lowell does not realize the prestige and chance for tremendous service that would come to Harvard through a school for play wrights", said Mr. E.E. Clive, actor-manager of the repertory company now playing at the Copley Theatre...
Miss Claire went on to state that an actor in a minor part can earn $500 a week by merely playing up to a leading lady, provided he can wear spats and the a bow tie correctly. She deplored the present interest in expensive scenery and stage machinery, instead of good acting...
...enrich my part somehow and in each new city I study my audience to see what jokes will take, and what parts will drag." Apropos of the reputed coldness of Boston audiences Miss Claire had little to say. She believes it is simply up to each actor to win the approval of his audience and that he is entirely responsible for any unresponsiveness on the part of his audience