Word: actorisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Alexander Szabo, for the 12th time; at Budapest, where he is a famed actor. "God made me to be a husband," said he to reporters, "and all my wives helped me to pass my days agreeably...
...preacher in love with a Count's wife in a Nobel Prize story by Selma Lagerlöf) came to Hollywood with her but quarreled with directors, protested against the stupidity of the roles they gave him, went back to Stockholm where he is now a leading "legit" actor. Miss Garbo, too, after immediate success, showed temperament but was soothed. In this picture, awkwardly constructed, ludicrously titled, finely acted, richly set, her languor is slightly more girlish and less exciting than that which, in recent films, has ravished U. S. manhood...
...Sullivan's wishes, then blandly pursued his original intent. William Schwenck Gilbert was early initiated to drama. At two, he was kidnaped by Italian brigands?his parents were visiting Naples?and redeemed for £25, a sound investment. At 15, he ran away from school to be an actor, but he was sent back to his Aristophanes and Virgil. He became instead a soldier, a clerk, a barrister, and to all outward appearances...
...characters speak in southern dialect, and to these northern ears seem to do it convincingly. But it is in this field that one discordant note rises. Amidst all this soft speaking the casting of the younger brother of the heroine has been such that the actor speaks in the nasal accent of toity-told street. This is really to be regretted as it is thoroughly jarring to pass from the melody of Helen Hayes to the harshness and total lack of southern accent of a supposed brother as impersonated by Andrew Lawlor...
This is the fourth straight make-up part played this year by Actor Chaney who in the past has used hideous disguises. Now nearing 50, Actor Chaney likes his relatives to call him Alonzo, his real name. He has a married son and has himself been in the show business for 30 years, first in a singing stock company in Colorado Springs, then as a legit-actor touring the Middle West in comedy, tragedy and operetta, and subsequently as wardrobe man, property man, chorus man, transportation agent, scenery-shifter (for Mansfield, Mojeska, Mantell), tourist guide, interior decorator, before his first...