Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Berlin again?utter poverty?furious labor, this time on a novel?failure once more?an attempt as a tutor ? as an actor ? as a tutor again, and this time an interval of peace, of what was almost luxury, as the protege of a rich banker. Then a deliberate return to the slums?the impulse to write?to probe into odd corners of life too strong to be denied. At last the edge of the precipice?no reasonable future in sight?abruptly followed by what proved salvation?the offered editorship of a new political weekly. The book ends there...
SEVENTH HEAVEN?The Bowery of Paris reflected in the mirror of Romance, where a " very remarkable fella" (George Gaul) wins a "yellow haired wife" (Helen Menken). A new actor, the World War, takes the same old thrilling part that the Civil War played in the melodramas of 20 years...
...millstones, the Dramatists' Guild of the Authors' League of America is trying to reconcile little brother manager and little sister Equity. Should the efforts of the dramatists prove unavailing, they propose to organize as a labor union and join the A. F. of L. Then, if either actor or manager should try to start anything with them-well, just let them try it! Another worm lias turned-a managerial one. Among the pieces which Oliver Morosco intends to try out on the Coast this summer is one called Schemers by William Irving Sirovich-a satire upon New York...
Married. Edith Day, star of Wildflower (musical comedy now playing in Manhattan), to Pat Somerset, English actor, in Greenwich, Conn...
Georges Clemenceau: " I superintended the production of my own play, The Veil of Happiness, at its revival in Paris. I reproved an actor who was playing the part of a god: ' Is that the way a god should speak ? When a god grumbles it is like thunder...