Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...songs, wrestles with Purity League President Bliss, flops on her other end with the savoir faire and polite restraint of a duchess, with a twinkling in her two eyes merrier than all the unbridled hilarity in the audience. While Miss Lillie is not tumbling about, there are laughs for Actor Charles Winninger and laughs for Actress Helen Broderick in their marital-musical scene of reconciliation...
...Great Adventure. Reginald Pole a Western actor, revives Arnold Bennett's play full of infinitesimal subtleties for the infinite satisfaction of folk who like Arnold Bennett on the stage. An artist who would be known to the world by his work only, changes places with his valet. The valet dies suddenly. The artist goes on painting, marries a bourgeois little widow. Their life is disturbed when the artist is rediscovered by professional collectors. The problem of the play is to make the wife realize that the man she married for a butler is really an artist...
...years ago; he is the same swaggering bon-vivant of a Napoleonic colonel with the old flourishes. The flourishes satisfy, but the plot leaves a stale taste. In a curtain speech after the third act, Mr. Skinner smilingly reveals his intention of reviving the play again in 1946. Actor Skinner will...
...lady accused of thieving, and Richard Barthelmess finds himself, a man in disgrace, engaged in battle with warring tribes of the Sahara Desert. The natives seize him, bury him to the neck in sand, fling their spears all around and very close to his head. Thus teased, Actor Barthelmess registers fury; it goes hard with the dastardly natives, and the hero's side wins...
...omit further unfair comparison of mediums, the play is powerful on its own plane. Of a moving generality it makes a convincing particular. Actor Glenn Anders as Dodd does not come up to London's frenzied descriptions of Noel Coward in that part, but Edna Best's Tessa in London could not have far surpassed the performance of Beatrix Thomson, quaint, perhaps too pretty, but subtly pigeontoed. It is said that all Broadway was combed to find an ingenue who knew what a constant nymph was, without success. Miss Thomson, daughter of a British army colonel, is the wife...