Word: actore
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...there been such uniformly good acting in a Dramatic Club performance. There was scarcely a jarring note in all the five acts. The massing of characters on the stage was easily managed, the exits and entrances smooth and logical--there was never an awkward moment. The danger, from the actor's point of view, lay in over acting. Those who remember plays of this sort in Germany, recall the heavy buffoonery and ridiculous capers of the characters; the plays were reduced to the merest and broadest farce, with the comedy values obscured by clownish antics. There was none of this...
Joseph Brennan, as John Ferguson, it a notable actor. He has the rate gift of acting by being natural, and is there by doubly convincing. No less excellent was the performance of Miss Freedmar as Hannah. These two were easily the outstanding figures, but no one in the cast was inferior. Dudley Digges slightly overdid the part of Jimmy Caesar, but not enough to spoil it, and Brandor Peters was sturdy if not brilliant as Andrew...
...monologues. Surrounded by a competent company, with an entirely adequate but extremely simple stage setting, with quick and silent changes, he gives us more of the play than we usually see. The action marches as a whole, and not as a series of incidents loosely strung together. A great actor is interpreting one of the masterpieces of all time; his understanding and his power allow him to show his audience the growth of the perturbed prince and the unhappy lot to which his fate was cast in a way which will be an abiding pleasure for those who have seen...
...success of a new play. In this instance, it is said, this faith and confidence will be more than justified, for Mr. Hodge believes that in "The Guest of Honor" he has the happiest vehicle of many seasons. It is a typical American play for a typical American actor, who, as usual, has surrounded himself with a group of admirable players including: Jennie Lamont, Miriam McCauley, Jane Miller, Jane Houston, Katherine Brook, Graham Lucas. Scott Cooper, Brigham Royce, George Lund, Howard Morgan, Charles W. Butler, J. Albert Hall, David A. Leonard, and George Syndham...
That the Workshop system of amateur plays, as originated by Professor Baker, is doing a great deal of good throughout the country, was the statement made by George Arliss, the famous actor, to a CRIMSON reporter the other...