Word: actorisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Judas. That Basil Rathbone is an able actor there is no doubt, but his part in writing this ineffectual piece should dictate to him the confines of his metier. He is not a playwright. Obvious, intermediate lines try without success to sketch Iscariot as a better man, really, than Bible History makes him. He who is hard of hearing would enjoy the personable cast, the good settings by Jo Mielziner, but the hard of hearing go to the cinema...
...Keith Memorial Theatre, eradicates within the first two minutes the conviction that because Harry Lauder showed a large number of gratis guests from Harvard how bad a Scotch comedian could be, that a burr was nothing more than another reason for seeing Doctor Means. Fyffe is a consummate actor, product of the English school of generous gesture. He is as far removed from American vaudeville standards as Ruth Draper or George Arliss. Last night he gave three portraits: an old man, a sailor, and a mildly intoxicated inciter of the proletariat. These are fat material, and Fyffe has brought...
Died. Wallace Eddinger, 47, famed actor (Little Lord Fauntleroy, Captain Applejack, And So To Bed); of pneumonia; in Pittsburgh...
...story he is flinging florins to the grovelling gold-thirsty who had waited for the death of Volpone. Mosca need not be named in Boston as Alfred Lunt's part; Mr. Larimore has all the grace, and enough of the busy play of expression that belonged to the actor-guardsman. In Hamlet black, with a tight head of red curls that are in a mad way exact for the role, Mosca moves swiftly, and used the stage from footlights to lagoon balcony and from box to box. At times his fingers, fitting the gilded carvings of the Hollis side pillars...
Died. Norman St. Clair Hales, actor of Freeport, L. I.; by falling through a Manhattan firehouse pole-hole on New Year's Eve. Firemen were in jeopardy; for receiving late visitors, for suspected revels...