Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complete a full ninely-nine year lease and then, unworthily, gain a renewal. Its life has been long, not because of any particular merits of the play as a drama of character, beautiful verse, or deep significance, but because the part of the Cardinal affords excellent opportunities to an actor. For that reason alone it has survived on the stage, and escaped its deserved fate as a piece for the class-room illustrating the theatrical tastes of our grandfathers that helped, however inconsiderably, in telling the story of the English drama...
...There is no American drama today in the proper sense of the word", said Mr. William Courtenay, the well known actor, when interviewed recently for the CRIMSON...
...reputed first-rate productions that we can look for here before next fall, and it is not the sort of play to suffer much from hot weather. The fickle Mr. Cohan, who sometimes make us suspect that he is as good a publicity agent as he is actor, author and producer, has broken his vow of theatrical chastity again and honored Boston with his presence behind the footlights. His part in "The Tavern" is thoroughly charming; the play itself is as hearty and artistic a burlesque as one could desire...
...especially the interpretation that should be praised. J. J. Collier was Beranger--a poetic, gentle Beranger--perhaps a little too "Quakerish", but this is the fault of the author and not of the actor. He was particularly good in his first dialogue with Talleyrand and in the last act. He had in Miss Googins a partner of the first rank. She played the role of Lisette, in her three successive impersonations, with intelligence, vivacity, wit, and charming youthfulness. She modulates her voice with rare perfection, and her acting is graceful without affectation, light with none of those "mannerisms" that...
...taken by J. J. Collier '23. Collier has played leading parts in several of the Dramatic Club's previous productions as well as in 47 Workshop plays. Conrad Salinger '23 has the difficult role of Talleyrand, the famous French statesman, the part that Lucien Guitry, the distinguished French actor, created in Paris...