Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delightfully vain, adroit, an artist fundamentally, hugely enjoying a world which has little for him save hard knocks; his mother, capable, heroic, un- questioningly devoted; Grumps, the bibulous Scotch grandfather, one of the most keenly observed and original figures in recent literature; the histrionic and ineffective father; Godfrey, the actor-brother, with a sonorous voice and the manner of a Grand Duke; Aunt Julie, the Incubus, who descends in all her Victorian smugness on the Hunter household for a protracted and intolerable visit; Felix's wife, " a passionate, exciting pet"; old Jacob, his friend, obstinately liberal...
Accordingly the Guild has embarked upon the dangerous seas of touring repertory. In Basil Sidney they have selected a singularly able actor as the company's cornerstone. Preliminary reports indicate that the tour is finding favor. Open hands and crowded houses are the portion of its deserts...
...What a spectacle have we be- held upon the European stage?as Shakespeare said in Hamlet?' then came each actor on his ass.' . It is not fair to mislead the American people. We must realize that at best, with the present obstacles to European economic regeneration, the establishment of European markets will be a long and difficult task...
Duse. It is said that the actor's fame is the most fleeting of all earthly glory. Though this be true, there are surely exalted souls in Heaven who would trade musty volumes of their memories for the greeting accorded to Eleonora Duse,* 64, and still much alive, at her "American appearance after 20 years" at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. The great auditorium, crowded literally to the chandeliers, roared its united respect and admiration till the golden rafters rang. Duse, the greatest living actress, was accorded honor as majestic as it was sincere...
...Detroit National League ball team. In a game at Minneapolis when the bases were full and the score " four to three with but one inning more to play," he struck out. A young Harvard man-Ernest Lawrence Thayer-pinned the tragedy into a few neat verses, and Actor DeWolf Hopper took to reciting the poem...