Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...snatch brief space to reenforce the sentiments expressed indirectly in a CRIMSON editorial Thursday concerning Walter Hampden? The company of which this very worthwhile actor is the leader came into Boston during the Christmas vacation, consequently its plans and whereabouts are not too well known by members of the University. For the remainder of this week it intends to give at the Boston Opera House some of the great plays from Shakespeare, with one or another pieces thrown in for certainly varied and perhaps balanced entertainment. The company although not a notable one is thoroughly creditable and quite capable...
...expatiates in the person of Alfred Dolittle upon "middle-class morality", express every emotion of that worthy man with inimitable gesture; his face assumes the cast of cupidity, of generosity, of profound ratiocination, of doubt, of surprise, of admiration, or of all these at once. He is an actor of character parts without peer or rival...
When he wrote to Booth, while a young man, offering the actor a suggestion as to an improvement in his histrionic technique, La Follette rather startled people. He has been doing so ever since, when Governor of Wisconsin, when drafting platforms for the Republican party, and seeing them rejected. Now he is startling Congress by his liberal progressive bloc, not the germ of a third party, for La Follette is too old a master to risk his neck on that horse again, but as a reform movement within the Republican party...
...appeals to a something in all of us that cries out for the happiness and welfare of any attractive woman, regardless of how she pays for her stockings. It treats sentimentally and often falsely her problems, sacrifices, and adventures. And yet it is a play that is almost actor-proof to this day because Dumas set out in 1852 to tell a touching story as touchingly as possible, and succeeded...
...this is too bad--especially since Shakespeare probably said to himself: "By the jolly Eliza, here is a play, at last, but where can I get an actor? Ah--I must write some directions." And so he told how to trip it on the tongue, and how to avoid sawing the air too much, or tearing a passion to tatters...