Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stage is caught by the impartial eye of the camera. In acting for the moving pictures one does not have the aid of one's voice, which, I find, is a very great asset on the stage. With all these means of expression cut off, the movie actor must rely almost entirely upon his or her face. As a result an actor must have something behind his face in order to maintain a high standard of acting...
...Thursday morning, Milton Sills, a star of the First National Pictures. Inc., will consider the place of the motion picture actor in the industry...
Died. Henry Miller Jr., son of the late famed actor-manager Henry Miller, disinherited and adrift under the name of Gilbert Miller, afflicted with a gnawing drug habit; in Mexico City...
...called "little" theatres operate on several principles-to encourage playwrights, to develop actors, to please an audience, to absorb the self-expressive energies of a community. The Provincetown Players were founded by the late George Cram Cook on premises including all these principles. Some results: the bringing-to-light of Playwright Eugene O'Neill, Actor Charles Gilpin, Stage-Designer Robert Edmund Jones...
Director McConnell, a diminutive person of perpetual vigor, has put his players through 68 plays in six years. Some of his actors (Elmer Lehr, Russell Collins, Carl Benton Reid) have performed more than 650 times in some 50 roles, "an experience, incidentally," says Director McConnell, "which the trained European actor takes as a matter of course." At their Play House, alert Clevelanders see many a play, from Shakespeare to Shaw, invisible elsewhere...