Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alfred E. Smith of New York. "After dinner, in the study with the men, Al Smith was at his best. He is a great actor; not a heel comedian like Willie Collier, who stands in one spot and gets his effect, but an all-over-the-lot acrobatic performer like Douglas Fairbanks. He gets out on the floor and acts out his scenes, puts his hands on the arms of your chair, shakes his fist at an imaginary enemy, and sinks into exhausted laughter at the end of his own story. His best ones were about prohibition...
Sued for Divorce. By Mrs. Beth Sully Evans, onetime wife of Douglas Fairbanks, one James Evans Jr., of Pittsburgh; in Los Angeles. She married Mr. Evans after her divorce from the cinema actor...
...first place I wouldn't advise any young college chap to go on the stage unless he has an income of his own", said Cyril Maude, the English actor who is now in Boston starring in "Aren't We All?" at the Hollis Street Theatre...
...girl, for whom the King of the Beggars wove his plot, was entrusted wisely to Violet Kemble Cooper, who made it easily the most important role of the play. Randal Ayrton, from London, played Hassan, conventionally, correctly, completely missing the weakness, the beauty, the humanity of the character. One actor who might have done the part justice is Dudley Digges...
Drawn to Harvard from another college by the fame of the "47 Workshop" I was at first amazed and disappointed to find its facilities so antiquated and inadequate. After two years of world as stage hand and actor, however, I realize that the "47 Workshop" is not a place, or equipment, or even an organization, but one man--Professor G. P. Baker. So inspiring and persistent is his enthusiasm that not even obvious non-cooperation can check his efforts. He will go on anyway...