Word: anglin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Security. The ethics of Jane Mapleson (Margaret Anglin) include the familiarly dangerous tenet that evil may be conveniently forgotten when it is not publicly known. Thus when James Mapleson's pregnant paramour commits suicide, Mrs. Mapleson commits perjury in the Coroner's Court and saves her husband. But the remorseful fellow insists on babbling about his sins to his wife and begging her forgiveness. Disgusted, she explains to him her diabolical philosophy of security. Then Jim Mapleson crawls off and shoots himself. The play peters out in a subplot...
...Actress Anglin's discreet linking of voice and gesture is in the grand tradition of acting, a rare delight in the modern theatre. But Playwright Esme Wynne-Tyson's gusts of passion are too like the winds of old melodrama. They proceed from an artificial churning contraption...
...Meet the Prince." That frail poetic tragedy, "Paola and Francesca", replete with pretty costumes and phrases such as "the stars in palpitating cosmic passion held" has Jane Cowl in the starring role and Walter Hampden is playing "Cyrano" once more up-town at his Sixty-second Street Theatre. Margaret Anglin does valiant work in making a drama of tragic married life, "Security" convincing and next week Ethel Barry-more will come to her theatre in "The Love Duel", highly praised in its out-of-town engagements. Meanwhile Mrs. Fiske has just opened a revival of that comedy of social climbing...
...entire American people. These public and private virtues are inseparable from the man's sterling Catholicity." The formal reason for the award was Mr. Smith's having achieved "such discinction in his field of special endeavor as to reflect glory upon the Catholic faith." Actress Margaret Anglin received the medal for 1927; Edward N. Hurley for 1926. Other Laetare medallists: Patrick V. Hickey, founder of Catholic Review (1888); Theatrical Manager Augustin Daly (1894); Orator William Bourke Cockran (1901); Attorney-General Charles J. Bonaparte (1903); Diplomat Maurice Francis Egan (1910); Essayist Agnes Repplier (1911); Chief Justice Edward Douglas White...
...Margaret Anglin gives a fine performance, both as Hortense and Lady Dedlock; Mr. Tulkinghorn (John Ivancowich) is a snooping, grim figure; and a little woolly dog amuses everyone by bouncing about the stage. As drama, Lady Dedlock is heavy rather than strong, it contains too much...