Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue was sharply drawn last evening among three eminent dramatists at the open meeting of the Harvard Dramatic Club at the Union, when before an audience of about 125, E. E. Clive, actor-manager, E. M. Woolley, director, and Clayton Hamilton, critic, spoke in varying terms as to the comparative trend of the modern stage...
Herr Piscator, famed German theatrical producer, was hardly disturbed, certainly not flustered, according to those who know him, when last week he received a threat from His ex-Imperial Majesty Wilhelm II to the effect that if he persisted in having him impersonated by the famed actor, Ferdinand Bonn, in his forthcoming play, Rasputin, by Count Alexis Tolstoy, the onetime Kaiser would have no recourse other than legal prosecution...
...were, many thought, even abler ingredients. The plot, that old dodderer of musical comedies, explained how a modiste's model married a millionaire. The jokes were moldy, the dancing deft, and the vast chorus uncommonly bewitching. Imbedded none too conspicuously in the generally unwieldy proceedings is an actor named Louis John Bartels, playing his first part on Broadway since he laid a just claim to fame as the blabbering, brilliant hero of The Show...
...stained glass; introduces this hero to a bag of golf clubs; proceeds to develop the domestic difficulties of this hero. Soon a menace appears in the form of a domineering colonel, to whom the dreamy hero refuses to pay a golf wager because he thinks the Colonel cheated. Actor Craven plays more craftily than he writes. The loudest laugh of the piece greets Mr. Craven's plaintive protest that he did not vilify the Colonel; simply said he was sunk in a ditch...
Yale appointed Charles Seymour, suave & able Chairman of the History Department, to be Provost of the University; appointed also Shakespearean Actor Douglas W. Ross to be drama coach, to succeed Edgar M. Woolley...