Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith "did well." Soon she was sitting up in bed, surrounded by flowers, inquired after by throngs of distinguished callers, visited daily by the hardworking, wide-smiling, cigar-chewing man whom she kept from becoming an actor 30 years ago when his devotion to her was expressed in nightly trips from the lower East Side to her home in the far-off Bronx...
...have become great actors, such as Mr. J. Barrymore, but acting seems to be more a woman's profession. It is more a part of us than it is with men. But to be a good actor one must have more than mere ability. A willingness to sweep the floor, if such is necessary, the ability to go night after night without sleep, and above all patience, all are requisites to success. Why, I could make every one of my costumes right now if I had to, and I did not learn that art after I had advanced, but when...
Bertie, the simple-minded bashful young gentleman is excellently acted by Milton Owen, being easily the best actor on the stage. His self-possession and unexaggerated performance go far to make the play very amusing. Next in the line of able performance comes the crude old man, Nick Van Alstyne, portrayed by Thomas Shearer, who, though a bit forced in the first act, becomes much more convincing and amusing as the play goes on-especially in his practicing how to appear and comport himself correctly in the presence of the snappy widow. The widow Olga Birbeck carries off the honors...
February 25-"Readings from French Plays", M. P. Leyssac, actor...
...Your Toes presents Reginald Denny, first as a young dancing master, the career his grandmother had picked out for him, then as a vigorous and successful pugilist. Noted for his winning personality, Actor Denny supplies the expected climax by whacking a fake heavyweight champion and winning his title. Waving his hands and, to indicate annoyance, his ears, Actor Denny is pleasantly absurd...