Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sued for Divorce. Mrs. Elsie Mackay Atwill of Manhattan; by Actor Lionel Atwill, 43, onetime leading man for Lily Langtry, Alia Nazimova, Grace George, and the Manhattan Theatre Guild, now of The Outsider...
What must have been the feelings of George Arliss, famed actor in The Green Goddess, Old English, The Merchant of Venice, frequent benefactor of needy actors, and councilor of the Actors' Equity Association when he read last week two communications addressed to the last named organization and signed by 60 actors and actresses. The purport of these epistles was rudely apparent; the 60 actors and actresses wished Mr. Arliss, long one of the major ornaments of the U. S. stage, to be excluded from holding office in Equity because he is a citizen of Great Britain...
...during Mrs. Coolidge's attack of grippe last month. One evening the President appeared at the theatre, for the first time in months, to see Criss Cross, a Fred Stone musical comedy. With him went Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston, oldtime family friend. Next day Actor Fred Stone and his daughter, Dorothy, were luncheon guests at the White House. Mrs. Coolidge stayed in Northampton over Easter. Her absence was not allowed to interfere with egg-rolling on the White House lawn, annual Easter diversion of Washington's when-we-were-very-young people. In Northampton, Mrs. Coolidge...
...attributed to William Shakespeare. The stalls were atwitter between the acts, as nice points of Baconiana and Shakespeariana were weighed. But while the curtain was up the gallery roared approval of a mannish, imperious Queen Elizabeth and of a Will Shakespeare who seemed but a lout of an actor and most timid and unwilling to lend his name to the immortal works of lordly Francis Bacon...
...Count of Ten. Charles Ray is the bashful bruiser, the simple-minded boy who could lick the champion. James Gleason, here a cocky misogynist, is his manager. When the manager goes away, Actor Ray puts on a pink shirt, yellow gloves, a cane, and spats, marries. Instead of taking on the champion, he takes on expenses and a gambling brother-in-law. At last, for quick money he fights the champion with a broken hand, and is, of course, beaten up. His wife had given him the count...