Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...GUARDSMAN-The smart comedy highlight of the season. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. The attempt of a great actor to seduce his own wife...
...about to rise, a telegram was received saying that the President was coming to attend the play, but had been delayed in New Jersey. He was anxious to see the first act. Would it be too much trouble to wait a few minutes for him? For 30 minutes actors and audience waited. Then both became restive. Someone went out before the curtain and explained the situation, took a vote on whether the delay should be continued. The majority voted to wait. Another wait followed. Finally the performance went on without the President. A few minutes later, a tipsy friend wandered...
...vivid play of the primitive" is Leon Gordon's description of his play, "White Cargo," in which he is now playing the leading role at the Selwyn Theatre. The author-actor adds that he has made no effort to create or eliminate sensationalism. Mr. Gordon hits the mark. The play is vivid, it is primitive, and both those who hope for and those who fear sordid sensationalism are disappointed...
...part of ample opportunities, opportunities which he realizes to the fullest. He plays the role of Witzel, an Englishman who has spent seven years at his African post at the cost of most of his ideals and all of his illusions. He renews the repetation as an actor which he won with Boston audiences at the Copley Theatre a few years ago, and he establishes himself for the first time as a successful playwright. For after all is over, it dawns upon us that the author of "White Cargo" really has something...
Divorced. Pauline Frederick, famed cinema vampire, from one C. A. Rutherford, Seattle physician; in Los Angeles. She charged desertion. This is her third divorce, the other two being from Frank M. Andrews (Manhattan architect) and Willard Mack (actor and playwright...