Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Actors are born and not made", said Ben Lyon, popular First National Film star, in an interview granted the CRIMSON last night. "An actor never gets far on either stage or screen, unless his abilities, for that field are innate. To be sure, an actor can be trained just as an athlete can, but no matter how well trained an actor may be, he is not likely to succeed unless he has some abilities to build...
...efficient, and how to persevere. It teaches them to think rapidly and correctly and to act accordingly. College trains men for the motion picture business mentally and physically. This business is hard on a man. Whether he realizes it or not, a motion picture writer or actor is working most of the time until his play is produced. Whether he is at work or elsewhere, he is constantly thinking how he should act in this instance, or how is that going to look on the screen...
...Charlot said that any act in revue, no matter how good the script is valueless without an actor whose personality will put it across. There are two kinds of shows, one that is played to a passive audience, and another that demands its hearers to meet it half way. The former type is passing, because it serves no purpose and has no effect on the audience, but give it idle pleasure...
...Manhattan to spend her $6,000 for a furtive smack of city life. The exploiter of women, duped by her reckless display, rushes into matrimony only to find he has caught a liability instead of an asset. And here is the end of the second act, with the playwright-actor of his own U. S. comedy still unworthy in the sight of the audience. How to reveal a heart of gold in the bad man? A powder mill explodes. Heroic qualities erupt. With nobility thus suddenly emergent, the ending triumphs happily for all, including the audience...
Director Brown has used only four actors. The rest of the characters are natives who were unconscious of the fact that the various scenes in which they played were to be strung together to make a motion picture story. Before the film, an old actor, once native to the Great Smokies of North Caroline, assures the audience that Director Brown's life would not be safe were he to return to the people whose story he filched...