Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presbyterian divine who had held many offices under the Commonwealth, notably being chaplain General Monk. After graduating from Trinity College. Cambridge, he came to London under the patronage of the Duke of Buckingham, with the intention of earning a living as an actor. But though, it is said, he was a fine reader, his seemingly incurable stage fright made an actor's career out of the question...
...need to act or write plays to be a part of the theatre. The audience, if it is really appreciative, can do as much for the progress of the drama as can the actor or actress...
Most suggestive of the comments Miss Hayes so courteously made was her statement concerning the growth of the "type" actor in the theatre. Where once versatility counted for much in the actor's bag of tricks, it now counts for little. Nor did Miss Hayes believe this to be other than good." It gives", she said, "the individual a greater chance to develop his art within very fixed limits. And that, as you know, is after all conducive to the greatest...
Miss Le Gallienne and Mr. Hampden were cited as successful at the Garrick method of verisimilitude in parts. Miss Hayes believes these rather exceptions than otherwise. Their success she thought due to the individual success of the particular actor in a particular role. Indeed, the idea of Alfred Lunt as a whimsical gentleman one week and a traffic cop or bootlegger the next, did not appeal to the erstwhile Cleopatra...
...other day, speaking of his play, an actor in the "Butter and Egg Man" repeated that often told truth: the best humor is that which can incite two to laughter and one to tears. Mr. McCord has discovered the art of humor. This character of his who spends "Half Hours at Sea." who knows a "Philosophy of Ceilings." is humorous in his revlation of pathos. Life to him is no grand grasp of the mighty but a daily contact with the desperately stupid rhythm of life as it is. And the order of his day is the discovery...