Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Below the Line. Rin-Tin-Tin is the favorite movie actor of a number of people. Such people will be highly gratified with the latest model. What matters it if the melodrama is wild and foolish? The dog saves the old woman about to be throttled by her wicked son; the dog vanquishes a pack of bloodhounds...
...Pelican. From London a success of last season necessarily attracted attention since it came on the heels of The Vortex, of similar history, if for no other reason than that. Moreover Margaret Lawrence and that extraordinarily fine English actor, Fred Kerr, were playing the parts. Therefore everybody went in high expectancy? was pretty sadly disappointed...
Harpers for October contains a strange little skit on the magic arts of the Bushnegroes in Dutch Guiana by John W. Vandercook, actor, editorial writer, and Yale man. The editors of the magazine, in introducing Mr. Vandercook, retail from his confidential confessions a sentence which is more significant than anything in the article itself. One year at Yale, it seems, was all Mr. Vandercook could stand. Unfortunately the details of that year are not given. Perhaps in the interest of truth and the unsuspecting youth of America, Mr. Vandercook is reserving them for another article. But at least a certain...
...Vortex?In a conspicuously eventful week this play from England was easily the sovereign event. As a corollary of this, Noel Coward, playwright and actor, is the week's first personality. Mr. Coward is only 25. He will have, before the season shuts up for the summer, five produced plays in town?Still Life (called Hay Fever in London), Easy Virtue, Fallen Angels, The Vortex and most of Chariot's Revue. In the latter will be sung his famous lyric, "We Must All Be Very Kind to Aunty Jessie...
Critics who reviewed the play next morning unanimously agreed that the third set was perhaps the most daring ever composed by the lean actor-dramatist. Four times Lacoste stood within a point of victory; four times, with strokes that bit like a fencer's riposte or an epigram by William Wycherly, Tilden beat him back. He took the set 8-6; ran out the match...