Word: actorisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Politicians hand out humbug to the voters-but so does lawyer to jury, doctor to patient, actor to audience, salesman to customer, parson to parish. The politician's condition is that, though human and with himself to care for, he is also the public's servant, subject to idealized standards and extraordinary publicity...
Died. Mrs. Helen Costigan Cohan, 74, retired actress, mother of famed Actor-producer George M. Cohan; of stomach trouble; in Monroe, N. Y. The vaudeville team of "The Four Cohans" (Jere J. Cohan, Mrs. Cohan, son George, daughter Josephine) was famed in the '90s; a Chicago theatre is named for them. George M. Cohan is the only survivor...
This and much more Adman Bruce Barton (The "Nobody Knows" Series) said in an interview printed last week by the New York Telegram. Theoretically, he was answering a similar interview with Publisher H. L. Mencken, whom he good-naturedly called "an actor . . . bad influence on young people ... a grand court jester ... a sad voice singing 'Sweet Adeline' in the speakeasies." Pungent paragraphs from Mr. Barton's interview follow...
Died. Rex Cherryman, 30, able actor (The Trial of Mary Dugan, The Noose); of septic poisoning; in Le Havre, France...
...actor moves his lips while a person off stage talks into the recording device...