Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...against whom the drys are massing fat rolls of slush money. There is a clergyman in the play whose college son is pictured as a sleuth for the drys, gumshoeing around the college resorts and reporting secretly to his father's party. All this makes earnest but stuffy drama. Actor Thurston Hall plays the leading part, well enough. At the opening in Washington D. C. (TIME, Sept. 21, PROHIBITION...
...actor crossed his legs. "I have my own conceptions of Mr. Lincoln's character," he said, "but I wanted to find out how far they accord with your...
...Virgin. The strange unplumbed affinity between religious exaltation and sex, which was the motif of Rain, has tempted another playwright. He is Arthur Corning White, who teaches English at Dartmouth, and his play has been trimmed and tuned to the theatre by Louis Bennison, an actor. Between them they have turned out a somewhat self-consciously sensational entertainment which has spots of fiery brilliance...
...Manhattan theatre dressing room, a tall, angular actor scrubbed furiously at the grease paint on his gaunt features. The curtain had just rung down on his matinee (That Smith Boy) and he* had an engagement even more pressing than seeing a manager at the Algonquin or sipping something cold in a friend's flat. He jerked on his overcoat, flung himself into a taxi, leaped out again at the Seventh Regiment Armory, where he plunged into a dense crowd of humanity and was seen no more, until he emerged in tennis costume on a brilliantly illuminated court surrounded...
...story tells of Bessie Hale, whom Booth, brilliant actor and darling of the gods, loved insanely, and who in turn loved Booth, under spring lilacs, "forever and forever." Bessie Hale married years later, but after Booth's departure she lived "a dead woman's life...