Word: actorisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tooth and stoop of shoulder was Actor George Arliss, now 60, foreordained to be a successful Shylock. The bond between William Shakespeare and a host of U. S. schoolteachers was further assurance that Mr. Arliss, after his tours in The Green Goddess and Old English, could take out The Merchant of Venice and get home a happier, wealthier man, which is what he was when he returned to Manhattan last week from a five-month tour that began in Syracuse and ended, via San Francisco, in Newark...
...what with all the beard, gestures, famed lines and ancient prejudices that cluster about Shylock, the part is an iron-clad one; and that. since the play is either tragedy or comedy depending on the audience, it might be done as well by Eddie Cantor as by a Great Actor. However true such flippancies may be about the type-part of Shylock, they are certainly untrue of the play's great character-part, Portia. And the Arliss tour was memorable for its introduction of the youngest Portia, and one of the best, on record...
Hearts in Dixie. First of several Negro cinemas scheduled for imminent release, this picture has only one white actor in its cast-Richard Carlyle, who plays a doctor. Spirituals, nicely sung, occur, as advertised, 30 times in the hour and ten minutes Hearts in Dixie takes to run. The voodoo doings, the cotton pickings and Bible-shoutings are just what a certain class of people, educated to consider Negro life "colorful" and "primitive" expect of the race, just as people of another class expect vaudeville patter and tap-dancing. The pathos, based upon the low temperature of the ground enclosing...
...fine picture out of a hard-drinking, Scotch barge-captain's opposition to his daughter's romance with a deckhand. Indifferent, however, to life spun out in slow journeys up and down canals, or perhaps discouraged by Actress Sally O'Neill's coyness and Actor Malcolm MacGregor's self-possession, the producers of this picture combine mediocre photography with choppy storytelling. Worst shot: studio tank vexed by a wind-machine to indicate a whirlpool...
...trials and tribulations of a movie comedian and the rise of the talkies in the motion picture industry were the topics which Harry Langdon, famous movie comedian, now appearing at the Keith Albee Theatre discussed with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "Anybody who thinks the life of a movie actor an easy one is all wrong," said Harry. "It takes me about 14 weeks to make a picture and in that time I have to work hard all day. Then, because of tremendous overhead, which sometimes amounts to $10,000 a day, we have to do night sequences in which...