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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pursuit occurs when he murders the source of the demimondaine's income; she perjures herself to avoid scandal; and then, because she loves the cub-reporter, confesses her paying to save his life. The able direction of one-time newspaperman Monta Bell, the able performances of Actor Gilbert and of Actress Eagels, make it possible to forgive certain weaknesses in the story. The weakness of the conclusion in which Mr. Gilbert wobbles off with his mother (adequately played by Gladys Brockwell) can be largely forgiven because its frailty is not due to an abortive attempt to satisfy the unsophisticated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 19, 1927 | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

Actresses Minnie Maddern Fiske and Henrietta Crosman, and Actor Otis Skinner, who were playing The Merry Wives of Windsor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

With the announcement of two new members in the cast of one of its three French plays, the Cercle Francais last night completed preliminary plans for its production at the Fine Arts Theatre on December 15. The newly-named actor and actresses are respectively J. S. B Archer '30 and Miss Elizabeth Moller, who take the parts of Un Officier and Zelie in "Le Pater", the drama in verse by Francois Coppee which will be the second number on the club's program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Add Two to Cercle Cast | 12/3/1927 | See Source »

...hardest thing in every field of endeavor, and especially in art, is thinking,--clear, hard, clean thinking. Art itself, impossible to define, must be an 'intelligent abstraction from nature'" declared Harry Irvine, noted English character actor, in the course of an interview with a CRIMSON reporter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IRVINE INTERPRETS ART OF THE DRAMA | 12/3/1927 | See Source »

...time frequently obtain dramatic directors who know no more about the art than the students themselves. What is worse, there is a tendency in college dramatic courses, where they exist, to call acting 'self expression'. This it most certainly is not. The one and most important task of the actor is to make himself a perfect instrument through which to express the character and feelings of others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IRVINE INTERPRETS ART OF THE DRAMA | 12/3/1927 | See Source »

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