Word: arliss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English. The distinguished Mr. Galsworthy wrote a strictly secondary play and the distinguished Mr. Arliss boosted it with his acting into the selected circle of plays that should be seen...
...Week, The most interesting feature of this business comedy is that George Arliss looks almost startlingly like John D. Rockefeller in action, manipulating millions. It i§ therefore most appropriately a picture in which valuable stocks and bonds are bandied about like So many pieces of chewing gum. Arliss embodies a millionaire who takes a lowly clerical job in a rival company's office to uncover a conspiracy, and incidentally reforms his shiftless son and saves him for the daughter of the rival house triumphantly to marry. There is novelty in the situation when this girl adopts a precocious brat...
...George Arliss looking startlingly like John D. Rockefeller in action...
...George Arliss impersonates, as he did in the stage version of two years ago, the Oxford-trained Rajah of Rukh. Into the Rajah's kingdom crash (in an airplane) two Englishmen and an English woman. Political friction, which obtains at the moment between the Rajah and the British rule in India, complicated by his sensibility of the woman's singular attractions, persuade the dignitary to sacrifice the males to the Green Goddess. The discovery of a wireless set in his palace and the subsequent arrival of British airplanes help to counteract his inhospitable intentions. The plot is well...
...kill the Cotillo-Leininger bills, designed to prevent medical "experimentation " on children or animals, after a spirited hearing at which prominent witnesses appeared on both sides. Former State Senator Charles W. Walton, Mrs. Belle De Rivera of the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs, Mrs. George Arliss, Mrs. Diana Belais, and others, for the " anti-vivisectionists," appealed to the legislators to prevent alleged horrible practices on poor orphan children...