Word: arliss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Merchant of Venice. Shakespeare has been but scatteringly surveyed this season by the more earnest theatre followers. Save the irreverent and eminently amusing Taming of the Shrew in modern clothes there has been no long run of the Bard's shows. Therefore, George Arliss was strategically situated to seize serious theatregoers by the ears and drag them toward his Shylock. He may still do so. No one can plot the perversities of theatregoers. Yet it was the feeling of many authorities that his Shylock was indifferent...
...part of Mr. Kennerley; a desperate search by the printer's son of his London and New York homes for the manuscript; finally discovery at his English country place. There are 226 faintly yellowed pages in Wilde's exquisite script. The printer's son is George Arliss, famed actor...
Wilbur -- "Old English", with George Arliss...
Wilbur--"Old English", with George Arliss...
Wilbur--"Old English", with George Arliss...