Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...community drama has great possibilities as a training field for the actor, playwright, and producer. A young actor cannot develop when surrounded by friends in amateur dramatics. He must get before an audience that does not know him: for friends, you know, are often cruel in their flattering criticism. Only then can he judge his work; can he tell whether he has the personality-- magnetism I prefer to call it since "personality" is often misused--to become a true actor...
...course, an actor must be able to step into his part absolutely but he cannot 'get it over the footlights' without an underlying magnetism, for it is this fundamental magnetism which distinguishes the good from the bad actor. A man may be good in dramatic technique--his mechanics, so to speak, may be perfect-- but if one feels the lack of this foundation stone one cannot but classify the man as a poor actor. The same is partially applicable to the playwright, but the chief advantage of the community theatre to him is the opportunity it affords for closer touch...
...scene is in Moraleda, a supposed provincial capital of Spain. La Menendez, an actress, Miss Eunice Eddy '20 Garces, an actor, J. F. Lincoln '23 Don Santiago, the Governor, Walton Butterfield '20 Dona O., wife of Baldomero, Miss Katherine MacLarnie '21 Esperanza, their daughter, Miss Dorothy R. Googins '22 Don Guillermo, Bertram Little '23 Polito, in love with Esperanzo, Powell Robinson, ocC. Reguera, a man about town, F. S. Stranahan '21 Marquis of Torrelodones, from Madrid, C. S. Howard '20 Don Basilio, rector of the University, R. B. Ayer '21 Jimena, his daughter, Miss Grace Cobb '21 Belisa, his daughter...
...giving a play by Benevente, the Dramatic Club produces the work of one of the chief Spanish dramatists. He is preeminently a satirist, but his humor shows itself most in the double meanings that abound in "The Governor's Wife." Being an actor himself, he was able to ignore the common precepts of craftsmanship and to make his style one of the most complex and highly personal in literature...