Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When asked to compare French and American producers, M. Perrin said: "The French are better producers than the Americans. With the exception of Mr. David Belasco there are very few American producers or directors who can tell an actor how to say his lines. Most of them leave that part to the actors, themselves, and so the plays are broken up. Instead of a play being the expression of a single man it is the expression of the entire cast, and does not convey the author's meaning...
...other hand, are artists. Before producing a play they study it carefully, and try to determine what the author is attempting to convey. After they have studied the play until they know it thoroughly they call in the cast, and as the production proceeds they tell each actor and actress just how they want each line spoken and accented...
Cyril Maude, the famous English actor who is now playing in Boston in "Aren't We All", will be the guest at a luncheon in the Faculty Room of the Union at 1.15 today. The luncheon is given by the Union and is the first of a series which the management plans to hold from time to time. Professor Bliss Perry will introduce Mr. Maude, who will talk informally after luncheon...
...Fake. Frederick Lonsdale is known locally for neat and witty social comedy (Spring Cleaning; Aren't We All?); A. H. Woods for bedrooms; and Godfrey Tearle because he is brother, to Conway, famd cinema actor. Together these three have rolled up a murder in a plain wrapper and presented it to the public. When the wrappings were ripped off the opening night, the public gratitude was only soso...
...first of a series of luncheons to be tendered by the Union to men of prominence in various fields will be held on Thursday at 1 o'clock in the Faculty Room in honor of Cyril Maude, the noted English actor...