Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Babe Comes Home. George Herman Ruth, variously known as the Home Run King, the Biffing Bambino, the Sultan of Swat, the Mogul of Mayhem, etc., does poorly in a film recounting the life story of a baseball player. Mr. Ruth is not even qualified to hold a cinema actor's lipstick...
Tartuffe. Probably no actor alive can make one physiognomy do for two faces better than Emil Jannings, so that it is fitting he should act the hypocrite of Moliere's story. Unfortunately, his ability to make himself look repulsive while duping the helpless Orgon, is hardly enough to galvanize the play...
Engaged. Richard Bennett, 54, actor (He Who Gets Slapped, They Knew What They Wanted) ; to Mrs. Aimee Raish Hastings of San Francisco. He was divorced by his first wife, Adrienne Morrison, actress...
Died. Gregory Kelly, 32, actor (Seventeen, Clarence, The Butter & Egg Man), husband of Ruth Gordon, actress, now playing in Saturday's Children; of heart disease, after a six months' illness; in Manhattan...
Died. John Drew, 73, called last week by his nephew John Barrymore "The world's greatest actor" at San Francisco, Calif.; of rheumatic fever. As death approached, Mr. Drew said: "This is but another act and I am playing my part." In November, 1853, in the Arch Street Theatre, Philadelphia, a son was born to one John Drew, an Irish character comedian, and his extremely versatile actress-wife Louisa Lane Drew. The child, christened John, had a sister, Georgie.* Both grew up in the repertory atmosphere of the old Arch Street Theatre, subsequently managed by their mother...