Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conscience) he draws a deep breath and prays. There is no artifice so flimsy as the conscience-on-the-stage gag, or one so easily collapsible if poorly done. That the show comes over as well as it does is due to a large extent to a new young actor who plays the conscience--David Wayne...
Wayne, you see, is both the actor and the audience. He dresses and acts like Emery, and his actions occasionally parallel those of the lead, but he also laughs quietly at the whole action. Without Wayne the show might flop; with Wayne's superlative acting, especially in the second scene of the first act and the last scene of the play, it is bound...
...Robbery (1903), being the first movie ever to tell a story, is one of the most important films ever made. The baby is anonymous. The eagle is stuffed. The Nature is by Richard Murphy. The Nature's Nobleman, who later rescues the baby, was played by a young actor named David Wark Griffith...
...opening show set the pattern for the series: two masters-of-ceremonies (Cinemactress Anna Neagle in London, Actor Philip Merivale in Manhattan); two orchestras (Glenn Miller's A.A.F.T.C. band and the London Fire Service Orchestra) ; British comedians Flanagan & Allen v. U.S. comic Red Skelton; Irving Berlin from Bristol...
...Sister Ethel could tell him off. Once when Jack was a little hazy about a Ziegfeld actor, she remarked: "You should at least know about The Follies. They were named after...