Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boobson--You are not an actor...
...elements of popularity; without a decent actor in the cast it would go big in Skowhegan, Maine. Indeed, its first performance on any stage was Down East somewhere under the title of Tommy Helps Himself. And they...
...skimp-skirted waitress. The hero, disguised as a mere reporter, is in reality vice president of a rival film corporation. Love. In the end, everybody marries. The real show is "Peachy" Robinson (Joe E. Brown), rustic Sherlock Holmes. His sleuthing is most unaccountably absurd, occasions a fusillade of wisecracks. Actor Brown's mouth is the dentist's dream. Two human fists can enter here, wiggle around in the spacious cavity. Actor Brown makes full use of his natural asset. Altogether, a better than average entertainment in a season when musical comedy happens to be the thing...
...Gabriel Borkman is a trag-edy of a Napoleon of finance who waited vainly for the world to come to his Elba in a garret, who finally stamped forth rashly to regain love and the world when it was too late. The little pauses between lines, the way an actor paces the room, the tempo of dialogue and movement, make all the difference in play production. To this work of Playwright Ibsen's old age, Miss Le Gallienne has given more careful direction than she has to previous offerings of her Civic Repertory Theatre. Egon Brecher, in the title...
...without seizing upon the audience's imagination or sympathy. The Emperor Jones. Eugene O'Neill's play about a Negro whom terror drives from a golden, stolen throne into a ghost-jungle, is being acted again by Charles Gilpin. Theatregoers remember that, after the first season, Actor Gilpin's work was authoritatively acclaimed the finest acting of the year. Evidently the part has palled upon him, for his present work rings hollow, artificial. Yet for those who have never heard the throb of the tom-toms coming nearer, beating louder, ominously, faster, the play will prove...