Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life came, saw and only partly conquered. The monkey is a man who apes the ape and fools the public in the sawdust ring. So astonishingly authentic are his make-up and his gestures that the play is at once credible. For this all credit to Jacques Lerner, French actor imported for the role...
...VORTEX-London society at decadent, amusing and finally fearfully moving moments. Noel Coward, actor and author...
...editorial in the New York Times comments upon another attempted solution of the discussion as to whether an actor should try to "feel his part" the solvent is William James's physiological psychology. The James psychology is that there is a strong and inevitable connection between emotion and action or gesture between gesture and emotion: a person cannot feel an emotion without making the appropriate gesture, and he cannot make the gesture without feeling the emotion. This is to be sure almost the same as saying that the argument was decided in favor of an actor's "feeling his part...
Robert Loraine, excellent English actor, who 20 odd years ago first played the shows of Bernard Shaw for these United States, was needlessly excellent...
Donald Gallaher (actor who produced The Gorilla) does pretty well and the always dependable Beryl Mercer helps. The chief interest of the opening evening was in the theatre. It is the Criterion, where you have seen The Covered Wagon, The Ten Commandments, etc., returning in its old age to an early and memorable allegiance to the spoken drama...