Word: arliss
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That the Workshop system of amateur plays, as originated by Professor Baker, is doing a great deal of good throughout the country, was the statement made by George Arliss, the famous actor, to a CRIMSON reporter the other...
...Although it is not realized by the general public," said Mr. Arliss, "workshop plays, produced in the semi-privacy of a small theatre are unostentatiously 'eating their way' beneath the mass of unworthy plays which we have to deal with. By 'unworthy' plays I mean the type commonly known as what the public wants,' but which it really does not want at all. The frivolous, plotless play has been largely brought on by the war, under the excuse of giving people something they can follow without thought or effort; but in such light productions, the mind is much more liable...
...Mollusc" is a light comedy, with a weak, sentimental ending, but has the virtue of illustrating the all too prevalent type of character who struggles to stand still. In order to bring out this point, both the plot and the acting are a good deal over done. George Arliss himself seems just a bit unnatural, and his conversations with Philip Merrivalle, the weather beaten and long suffering husband of the "Mollusc", holds the attention but seems to lack essential characteristics of reality...
...ending is grossly untrue. It is doubtful if any man ever won his wife by weeping over her future, and enlarging on his hope that she would find a good husband; yet George Arliss does it and the audience looks on with rapt attention apparently oblivious of the inconsistency...
...George Arliss, as the father, gives us a remarkably distinguished picture of the British spirit which made it possible for England to go on building more ships and munitions, and sending millions of here sons into battle, when the flower of the nation had died. Mrs. Arliss affords her husband able support, and Olive Tell, as the old sweetheart, is pleasant to look upon...