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Word: actor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...GUARDSMAN - Some of the smartest playing and discussion of the season, depending on the ability of a great actor to act so well as to seduce his own wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Jan. 19, 1925 | 1/19/1925 | See Source »

...GUARDSMAN-Lynn Fontanne, Alfred Lunt and the Theatre Guild in a supremely smart discussion of the domestic disturbances of a great actor and his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Jan. 12, 1925 | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

...looks like an understudy for Anton Lang, chief actor of the Oberammergau Passion Players; he hates the country "except as medicine"; loves crowds; is to be seen nearly every afternoon striding spiritedly up Fifth Avenue, Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Formalist | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

...fifth from the start assumes that Napoleon was a great man and a great actor and, in a series of sub-headed paragraphs, gives amazingly well a poignant outline of his life. The observations are keen, the style pleasing, the treatment intelligent. Considering its scope and the fact that it is written from a semimilitary standpoint, the book is an excellent piece of work, easy to lead, easy to digest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Books | 12/29/1924 | See Source »

...Florentine Dagger (a mystery novel, alleged to have been written in 24 hours, on a bet), Fantasius Mallare and its sequel, The Kingdom of Evil (studies in the elephantiasis of carnal lust, for the first of which Author Hecht, being poor, was temporarily imprisoned) and The Egotist (played by Actor Leo Dietrichstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bedlam Blasted | 12/29/1924 | See Source »

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