Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quiet-and on Sunday night rain drummed on the roof. Otto Stephen Wilson, 33, a fry cook in the yard commissary, looked at his face in the mirror. He could see why women smiled at him. With his black hair and neat mustache he resembled Robert Taylor, the actor. And women had no way of knowing what he was thinking, so secretly, when he smiled back at them...
...Orson! .. . Oh, Wellesie! . . . Where is old fatso?" Welles came out of the wings at NBC's Manhattan studios, and McCarthy chirped: "Why don't you release a blimp for active service?" Once before, Welles had taken even worse abuse from his radio host. That time the actor had asked "the Magnificent Splinter" what he thought of the weighty Welles efforts on the air. Said McCarthy: "At first I thought something had died in my radio...
...performances. Then I got my second wind." Newman learned to sleep open-eyed, but the slightest deviation from the script would wake him up "with a jerk." Slight differences in intonation or timing came to be "minor events." When Newman occasionally slipped out for a breath of air, "the actors who resented my continuous presence most . . . objected to my temporary absence even more." The acting, Newman found, was highly intermittent. He noted many missed cues and cases of "drying up," found that five times in six weeks one actor failed to show up on the stage on time...
Audiences were almost never alert to such real crises, but on the other hand were upset by trifles: their most violent reaction (lasting an entire act) was to an actor's inadvertently addressing a commissioned officer as a noncom. Audiences in general, Newman decided, have an "average mental age" of between...
Died. Edward James McNamara, 60, jovial actors' actor; of a heart attack; in Boston. A Paterson (N.J.) policeman and baritone, Mac toured the" U.S. with Schumann-Heink, was one of Caruso's few pupils. In Broadway's Strictly Dishonorable, he was typed for all time as Patrolman Mulligan, ad-libbed two of the play's best lines. When Muriel Kirkland observed that she thought policemen never drank, Mac remarked, "It only seems like never," later made his exit promising to use his nightstick "only in case...