Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Steuer, defense attorney for Mr. Daugherty, is the most dramatic courtroom lawyer in Manhattan. Like a skilled actor in a play, he allows each trial to shape his emotions; then he turns about, leads the jurors to his viewpoint as deftly as a Hampden or a Barrymore leads his audience. Mr. Steuer† once advised young lawyers...
Sunshine. With winning personality, fine restraint, resonant voice, Actor O. P. Heggie inspires Sunshine to meagre life. As an honest, easy-going country lawyer, he apotheosizes kindliness. Dramatic conflict raises its cruel head when it is discovered that his dearly beloved, departed wife had once been indiscreet in Kansas. Therefore, by a technicality of nature, Sunshine Dave's daughter, light of his life, is really the offspring of a successful manufacturer. Everyone rejoices when Sunshine wages a stern, successful battle for the idealized halo of his wife's memory and preservation of his home life. Actor Heggie saves...
...dowager accepts her daughter-in-law. In all fairness, a good cast does almost make a play out of this. As the titular heroine, Sylvia Field spits and flares conscientiously and with charm. Possible success of the show, however, if any, will redound mainly to the credit of Actor Russell Mack, who, as a genial reversion to the Show-Off type (famed in George Kelly's play), was applauded at every turn...
...scene, the amateur gigolo appears in time to prevent Ann from running off with his professional colleague. After all, had not these two misunderstood souls been welded into an eternal bond by the Tschaikovsky business ? But why write of the play? The wisecrack's now the thing. To Actor Osgood Perkins, most of the many funny lines have been entrusted- and wisely...
...Manhattan arrived from Deauville one Joseph Morrison, brother of Morris Morrison, Shakespearian actor, his passage paid by Al Jolson, comedian. On the boat Mr. Morrison, penniless, had frolicked. Now he called into his stateroom the ship's men who had served him, told them that he had no money. "But wait," he cried, opening his trunk. . . . His steward received a tuxedo, his "boots" every cravat except one. He gave every shirt except the one on his back to the bottle-boy, and the waiter was rewarded with a pair of cufflinks...