Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hopper is distinctly an actor of the old school. There is nothing that suggests Broadway about his attire, and his speech and manners are just the opposite of what passes among comedians nowadays as "smart". His choice of words and his enunciation is of a high order, and the deep-cheated volume and resonance of his speech suggests blank verse rather that humorous sally...
...hear many people tell you that the glamor of the stage wears off quickly, but I have not found it so," De Wolf Hopper, whose career as a comic actor dates back to the last quarter of the nineteenth century, yesterday told a CRIMSON reporter...
...Actor of Old School...
Although Mr. Hopper does not regret his career as a comedian, he admits that most humorous actors have a longing to appear in tragic roles. Mr. Hopper told the reporter that he had started as a tragical actor, but that his voice drew him into the musical field. "I have sometimes nurtured an ambition to make my audience weep, and of all the roles I have played on the stage, my favorite is that of Jack Point in Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Yeoman of the Guard', a strolling jester who dies of a broken heart. I revel in that little...
Asked why he classed Gilbert and Sullivan so far ahead of all other composers of musical plays, the veteran actor replied, "Gilbert and Sullivan are immortal because each was a genius with an infinite appreciation of the other. Gilbert was, I think, the greatest come poet of the language, Sullivan was an accomplished composer, without compare in his particular field. Together they rose to heights that would have been unattainable for each single. Gilbert and Sullivan were the perfect union of sense and sound. Sullivan's music matches wit for wit, and gibe for gibe, with Gilbert's book...