Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...left Columbia, became interested in social and literary work. He became Editor of The Masses and a promoter-actor in the Provincetown Players. In 1918 The Masses was suppressed, but later reorganized into The Liberator. He founded the first men's league for woman suffrage. Lately, he has lived abroad...
Forbes-Robertson supports Henry Irving in Much Ado About Nothing, also painting for Irving the church scene that hangs today in the Players' Club, N. Y. . . . A brother actor is stabbed by a madman. . . . Gilbert quarrels with Sullivan. . . . John Clayton solves the question of corresponding with inept authors: "My dear Sir, I have read your play. Oh! My very dear Sir! Yours truly, John Clayton." In 1885, Mary Anderson tours the U. S. "J. F.-R.," her leading man, is enchanted by American sunshine. General Sherman wrings his hand in St. Louis; General Lee's daughters charm...
There are a dozen Forbes-Robertson mouths to feed and Johnston, the eldest, though speedily mastering his painting, cannot refuse a salaried part in Mary, Queen o' Scots at the Princess Theatre. Other engagements follow and the young actor begins meeting the great stage folk of the day-Charles Calvert, Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps (who trains him), Madame Modjeska, Author Charles Read amid a sea of manuscript in his study, Miss Ellen Terry in her gray-blue drawing-room with ribbons of incense smoke wreathing the Venus of Milo...
...accolade, tales of touring the Continent, and many more intimate memories of princes, presidents and pre-Raphaelites-to the farewell performance of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson (Hamlet at Harvard in 1916). Cables Herbert Tree: "All our stage is proud of you." After the passing* of one of the great actor-managers in the lofty line of Garrick, Siddons and Macready, his book is a snapshot album copiously illustrating the rich life of his day and a memorial for ex-audiences from Berlin to Vancouver...
Divorced. Alia Nazimova, 46, famed actress, from Charles Bryant, onetime cinema actor and director; in Paris...