Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...singularly fine cinema (TIME,Oct. 8); finally a moderately entertaining example of the cloak and sword in drama. An illegitimate child, a revolutionist, a wandering mountebank, finally "the most powerful man in Paris" during the Revolution; thus the fortunes of Scaramouche unfold. Unfortunately the quiet talents of that excellent actor Sidney Blackmer fit wretchedly the heroic velvet and sash of the hero. When fiery flame is needed he only smoulders pleasantly. Otherwise the cast and the production are considerably better than the arrant melodrama deserves...
...Actor candidates are now signing in the blue book at Leavitt & Pierce's for times of their trials, which begin today and continue thru Monday and Tuesday of next week...
...first place, Molnar. He has dramatized the insanity of a young girl gone mad from unrequited love. He has, with the complete coöperation of the actor currently concerned, made her lover so grossly unattractive that she seems a fool to tolerate him, much less dive in the Danube on rejection. Subsequently she thinks herself an angel, wears feather wings and drinks glasses of milk at stated intervals...
Tarnish. The advent of a new dramatist and of a new star made the production, of this play particularly significant. Gilbert Emery, soldier of fortune, writer, actor, is the author. Ann Harding, an able but previously undistinguished player, is the actress to whom the wise men carried their literary frankincense and myrrh...
Divorced. Gerard Monte Blue, cinema actor, by Gladys ("Boots") Blue, at Los Angeles. She charged desertion. He played recently in Brass, cinematization of Charles Norris' novel of divorce...