Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manner broadly British. His real name is Emery Pottle and he attended Amherst College. Later, he was a teacher, wrote short stories. There followed War pages?pages bright for him?and finally peace. His stories did not sell. One day Jane Cowl wondered if he ever had been an actor. No, but he'd try it. And he did?with indifferent success. Presently, Mr. Emery turned his hand to playwriting. Writer of The Hero and Tarnish, actor in other plays, he has finally consolidated. With some regret, it must be stated, neither his best acting nor his best writing have...
...kernel is sound. A young man who lives and breathes only for syncopation marries into a dry-goods family with emporiums the country over. For four years he is bound by the chain store shackle. The family still regard him as a cheap actor, a low comedian, a gutter snipe. He makes the obvious burst and, as the final curtain falls, is headed for Broadway and a career of sound public service as a song-and-dance...
...curtain speech Monday night, Mr. Craven said that he had returned from his scheduled retirement to play the part of the young son, because of the sickness of the actor assigned to the part, and the lack of a capable understudy. But the role he has created in Mr. Thomas Watson Jr. could only suffer in the hands of some other player. The part of the grouchy old father is played in the manner of the best crabs by Mr. Robert McWade. Miss Blyth Daly, as Geraldine Marsh, the orphaned friend of the family turned housekeeper, entirely satisfactory...
...Harvard week, or more appropriately Collier week, at the St. James. Given his first chance to display his real capabilities as an actor, this graduate of the Harvard Dramatic Club and the 47 Workshop was largely responsible for the success of "In the Next Room", the mystery thriller which the Boston Stock Company is putting on this week...
...other competition in college. While candidates in most competitions will find that their duties consist of the same routine work, day after day, the CRIMSON news candidate will find before his 11 weeks' competition is over that he has done a little of everything. He has interviewed a famous actor or actress. He has talked football with the coach of a visiting eleven. He has reported important University athletic contests. He has covered fires and read police station "blotters...