Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...PRISONER WHO SANG-Johan Bojer-Century ($2.00). Enthusiastically heralded by its jacket blurb as "A Peer Gynt in prose," this is the story of a Norwegian of many aliases, a strange lad who wanders through the countryside impersonating now a preacher, now a young actor, now a decrepit bank messenger-a "long procession of persons, created by himself, and every one of them fleeing before the police." Sometimes he grew anxious for their safety. And the reader assuredly grows dizzy. Bojer has a graphic, stark style, a trick of creating atmosphere in a single sentence...
...Theopold '25 Cleopatra A. M. White '25 Richards Clark Hodder '25 Leading Chorus Man J. G. Cushman '25 Kitty E. M. Carson '24 Molly Ranlet Miner '25 Janet Adair H. N. Pratt '24 Bob Stanley J. D. Lodge '25 Webber F. Van W. Mason '24 Barritello, a tragic actor J. S. Moynahan ocC. Barbara Rhodes Lockwood '24 Sarah R. P. Rose '25 Mrs. Withers S. G. French '25 Act II A Troubadour Clark Hodder '25 Friar Benedictino Clark Hodder '25 Fernando Ranlet Miner '25 Alonzo A. M. White '25 Warren A. B. Cassedy '24 Don John W. Berlitz, the Governor...
Eugene O'Neill was born in Manhattan in 1888, attended Princeton and Harvard Universities. He spent two years at sea, has been in business in Central and South America, has been a vaudeville actor, a reporter for a Connecticut paper. He was married in 1918 to Miss Agnes B. Burton of London, England. His plays include: Thirst, Beyond the Horizon (Pulitzer Prize play 1920), Diff'rent, The Emperor Jones, Anna Christie (Pulitzer Prize play 1922), The Hairy...
CYRANO DEI BERGERAC ? Walter Hampden unfurls his banner as a real actor amid the waving of Gascony swords...
...When the Actors' Equity Association was formed some years ago, it was implied and assumed that although its aim was largely to protect the actor from the questionable practices of a certain type of intinerant manager, it would not extend its influence to unreasonable lengths. Recently, however, in making its demand for an "Equity shop", which is a polite euphemism for the unpleasant connotation of "closed shop", it has shown distressing symptoms...