Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Faces because it gave him a chance to exercise his hobby?facial makeup. He likes fights, football games, concerts, is bored by tennis, can play the violin. His two brothers are professional musicians. He dislikes applause and has his hair cut short so as not to look like an actor. Recently he made another talking picture?The Valiant...
Cortez. Lionel Atwill and William Faversham, both historic stage wooers, have already this season displayed their best cavalier postures in plays productive of little else (TIME, Oct. 21, Nov. 4). They are now followed by Lou Tellegen, an actor of bearing as lordly as befits a onetime leading man of Sarah Bernhardt and Eleanora Duse. As a bandit?descendant of the wildly surmising explorer Cor-tez?he descends upon a cinema company taking pictures in the Mexican mountains. To his castle on the crags he carries the stately leading lady (Helen Baxter) and numerous others, including a cameraman's little...
...size. Hayes is slight, frail-appearing. He sings spirituals artfully, in a high voice that is often reedy. The Negro who sang last week in Manhattan was as tall as Basso Feodor Chaliapin and brawnier. His voice was big and mellow. He sang simply. He was Paul Robeson, athlete-actor-baritone. Last week's was his first U. S. appearance after a three-year absence in Europe...
...performed in a Y. M. C. A. play which Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill happened to attend. So enthusiastic was O'Neill that he went backstage and begged Robeson to act in Emperor Jones. His law course finished, Robeson consented, and made a name as a big actor in Emperor Jones, All God's Chillun, Black...
...less intelligent man than Robeson might well have come home in a conquering-hero frame of mind, might immediately have flaunted on his programs the classics he has been studying. A singing-actor of the first order, he might even have attempted to go into opera, although no Negro ever...