Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hamlet. While the return of John Barrymore is not strictly news, two facts combine to make his reappearance noteworthy. He forsook the electric nebula, which last year served for the ghost, in favor of a flesh and blood actor (Reginald Pole) ; he gave an even greater interpretation than the one which last season served to break the world's record for consecutive performances (101). Barrymore is rapidly becoming recognized as America's greatest actor...
...surrounded by a group of masculine chorus girls, who will make their first appearance in "Dr. Hyde and Mr. Seek" on January 4 in Cambridge. Aside from coaching numerous college theatricals at the University and at Dartmouth, Mr. Lord has long been associated with the Shuberts, both as an actor and as a manager, and in these capacities he has come in contact with audiences of every sort in every part of the country. Continuing his tirade, against Boston audiences, Mr. Lord declared...
...think that the Harvard students made a very creditable mob of Thebans", said Sir John Martin-Harvey to a CRIMSON reporter on Monday night after the first performance of "Oedipus Rex" at the Boston Opera House. The noted British actor was resting after his first appearance as Oedipus, king of Thebes in this classic tragedy of Sophocles, which was produced for the first time on Monday evening...
...even greater than Hamlet, although it is very difficult to compare the two. It depends very much on the temperament of the actor. My own tends toward the Greek drama. The character of Hamlet is greater in scope than that of Oedipus; its philosophy is more profound and infinitely more intricate. The character of Oedipus is less complicated, less subtle. It is simple and straightforward, and for that very reason Sophocles has made it more impressive in the vastness of its emotions...
Died. James O'Neill, Jr., actor, 43, son of the late James O'Neill (actor, hero of The Count of Monte Cristo), brother of Eugene O'Neill, playwright (The Emperor Jones, The Straw, Anna Christie, The Hairy Ape), at a Trenton, N. J., hospital...