Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fresno, Margaret Irving Seabury, actress, and William Seabury, her actor husband, announced that they intend to marry "in every State in the Union." Said she: "If either of us ever wants to get a divorce, we will have to go to court in every State before either of us can marry again...
...plays the Christus must have strength as well as dramatic ability, for the cross which he must carry for 15 minutes weighs 150 pounds, and, in addition, he remains for 20 minutes fastened to the cross. There is said to be danger of heart-failure each time an actor essays this scene. Lang played this part...
...from the French and Russian have been very popular. Is it because they are foreign? I don't think so. Last year I practically concluded arrangements with the elder Guitry to appear in this country, not because he is a Frenchman, but because I think he is the greatest actor in the world. He would be more of a sensation here than Eleanora Duse. I had the New Amsterdam Theatre already engaged. He was going to bring his own company and put on his own plays. At the last moment, the whole thing fell through. His son, Sacha Guitry, persuaded...
...would Guitry be so popular here? Because the American public demands a high standard of acting. Belasco fills his theatres because he always stages a finished production. The day of the good actor is coming back stronger than ever. There has been a great change in the last three or four years. People are reading a better class of book. I don't mean heavy literature. I mean light literature of a better sort. Naturally they want to see better plays and better acting. A play like "Anna Christie" would be three times as popular now as it was when...
...Acting before a Boston audience is like running up against a blank wall. The audience sit on their hands. They have cakes of ice in their pockets. They're awful! There aren't words enough in an actor's vocabulary to express his feelings about a Boston audience. At the start of a run in Boston, he says 'My God!' and at the end he says "Thank God." Then he leaves town and tries to forget about it as soon as possible...