Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...critic of literature has advanced to join the army which already exists, a critic from the allied kingdom of the movies. Rudolph Valentino,--actor, artist, dancer, and now author,--has called attention to a different horizon for the novel in an article in the Bookman...
...offers some interesting and constructive suggestions. One of these is that authors for the screen must write better literature,--startling doctrine from a "movie man"! The average literary critic looks upon the scenario writer as on a lower rung in the anthropological ladder and on the actor as a mechanical if "artistic" mimic who follows his director's instructions as far as they are printable. The actor turns on the scenario writer in self-defense, and both combine to denounce the critic...
Besides writing plays Mr. Brink has served as an actor in the 47 Workshop productions and has written a novel...
...repertory theatre is essential if the finest things in the drama are to live," said Mr. Walter Hampden, when interviewed recently by a CRIMSON reporter. Mr. Hampden, a Harvard man in the Class of 1900, is without doubt the most widely known Shaksperean actor in the world today...
...These are the reasons why I believe that the repertory theatre is the hope of the actor and of that ever-widening circle of true drama-lovers to whom Shakspere and the better plays have a real appeal. Because it is the only way in which the people who really appreciate the purposes of the stage can be supplied with what they want, and because it is the means of keeping Shakspere alive now and in the future, it has long been my ambition to found a repertory theatre. If that ambition over comes true," he concluded, "I shall feel...