Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brooms. Frank Craven, that small man with the worried smile, has given himself cause to be worried in reality. He has become a producer. He started as an actor, progressed to playwriting and now becomes his own employer. Under the stress of the occasion, he has deserted his own cast. It was the opinion of those his first guests that the stage had lost a solid asset in Frank Craven the actor and gained only a minor asset in Craven the producer...
...Author. St. Reymont was born in 1868 in what was then Russian Poland. His family was large, poor, patriotic. His mother and her five brothers took part in the Polish insurrection of 1863 against Russia. He, too, is a patriot. He has been telegraph operator, actor, railway clerk, farmer, even spent months in a Paulist monastery. His complete works comprise 28 volumes of novels and short stories...
...Clive, manager of the Copley Players, will speak to the Society of Harvard Dames this afternoon at 3 o'clock at Phillips Brooks House. Mr. Clive has been the leading actor of the Copley Players since they were first gathered together several years ago, and when the company recently failed financially he took over the management in addition to his work as an actor. This week he is playing the leading role in "Captain Applejack...
...Reymont, one of the dozen children of poor parents, grew up under the hardships to which so many Slavic writers have been heirs. Early expelled from school for refusing to abandon his native language for the Russian, he tried variously to make a livelihood?as store clerk, telegraph operator, actor, rail employe, farm hand, Paulist novice. He wrote his first short story, The Death, in 1894. He is now working on a cycle of six novels, of which one will have its setting in the U. S., whither he came in 1919 to study the life of Polish peasants...
...prefer New York audiences to all others. This is not because New York is such a big city by any means, but because for some reason its audiences are the quickest to appreciate an actor's efforts, the quickest to rise to the occasion. Next to New York, Philadelphia runs a close second. Philadelphians are really very delightful and gracious, as far as plays are concerned at least...