Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...necessary now, not to say that he is funny, but to say how funny he is. It is a case for superlatives, but not for the kind of superlatives that were properly scattered at The Gold Rush. There is nothing in The Circus to match the moment in which Actor Chaplin, with all the fine frenzy of a gourmet dissecting a brace of broiled quail, ate a Christmas dinner consisting of an old, very tough, boiled boot; or that in which he amused his imaginary guests with a miniature ballet dance, furnished by two forks, each shod with a roll...
...ROYAL FAMILY?If you wonder what an actor or actress thinks about, this will do excellently (TIME...
...somewhat commonplace conversation which took place, between the spectres and the condemned woman, even the gratuitous insult to the memory of the dead actor, fade into insignificance compared to the manner in which the tale is told. Here is the printing press used not for the dissemination of knowledge but for the spreading of blind terror and superstitions resorting not to mere vulgarity but taking a malicious advantage of ignorance and credulity. For one assumes that these editors are acquainted with their public, and have no intention of making themselves ridiculous in the eyes of their readers. If this assumption...
...evening of amiable conversation; a genially drunken friend of the family; a correct, quiet, cordial entertainment is the sum. Madge Kennedy plays prettily; the father-in-law is Gilbert Emery, practically the only U. S. actor who can wear a double breasted suit as though he owned it. Critics are generously delighted with Paris Bound. The title refers to the widening quota of comfortable Americans to whom the sea of matrimony is simply a broad Atlantic with French divorce courts at the voyage...
...every place else. We don't get as many laughs out of a Boston crowd, because they take the play very seriously, but on the other hand the applause is greater at the end. However, I won't allow curtain calls during the play. The vanity of an actor is essential but if he has proper pride he will not stand for interruptions. He labors for an hour to create the impression that Smith and Brown are mortal enemies and then, after the first act, they come out and bow side by side, smiling happily...