Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Union, has announced a luncheon to be given Tuesday noon, January 16, at which Elliott Nugent is to be the guest of honor. At the luncheon Mr. Nugent will speak a few words to those present but he has not yet announced his subject. As writer and leading actor of the "Poor Nut", now playing to full houses at the Hollis Street Theatre, and as the author of numerous works bearing on the stage. Mr. Nugent is a recognized authority, Mrs. Nugent, who is playing with her husband in the "Poor Nut" was obliged to refuse the invitation...
Died. John Henry Bushman, 82, father of virile cinema actor Francis X. Bushman and of eleven other offspring, at Mount Washington, Md. He was a Civil War veteran, a descendant of one of three brothers (John, Isaac, Ephraim) who landed in the U. S. from Germany in pre-Revolutionary days and soon married three sisters Miller...
...Nugent, the latter of whom, under her own name of Norma Lee, plays the leading feminine part opposite her husband, discussed with enthusiasm the work of depicting college life on the stage, as they sat at a late breakfast in the Hotel Bellevue. Patterson McNutt, producer, actor, and journalist, who is presenting "The Poor Nut" in Boston, who was also present, was primarily interested in the future of the "college life" drama...
...Nugent, before entering Ohio State, where he was active in college journalism as well as dramatics, had already appeared on the professional stage. The son of actor parents, he was, while still a child, making regular appearances as "the boy monologist". Together with his father, J. C. Nugent, he wrote "The Poor Nut", which is a play of his college and the characters are close imitations of the students and faculty there...
...Playing in a college part is the next best thing to being a student again," commented the youthful playwright and actor. "Critics have become tired of college plays, and are distinctly hostile to each new one. This is due of course to the fact that many of them have been written by men who never attended college at all or so long ago as to have fallen completely out of touch with the situation...