Word: arliss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Working Man," also showing at the University today stars Mr. Arliss who is the shoe manufacturer. He takes a vacation and meets the son and daughter of a dead friend who was his rival in business. These children are wasting their fortune on liquor and debauches. Mr. Arliss is an amusing angel who guides the youngsters back to respectability. As usual, he acts in his own inimitable, unchangeable style. "The Working Man" is suitable for the children; so is "Three Little Pigs...
...Pickford, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks Sr.). Suspected of intending a campaign of "star-raiding,'' Producer Zanuck has so far managed to borrow or buy in the open market all the talent he has needed. On Twentieth Century's current payroll are: Constance Bennett, Loretta Young, George Arliss, Constance Cummings, George Bancroft, Judith Anderson, Sally Blane. Tullio Carminati. Forthcoming Twentieth Century pictures: Broadway Through a Keyhole, Moulin Rouge, Advice to the Lovelorn, House of Rothschild, Gentlemen, the King!, The Great Barnum...
Voltaire (Warner) is an historical picture in the grand manner, with powdered wigs, conversations behind curtains, a package of letters from the King of Prussia and George Arliss in unbecoming knee breeches. Count de Sarnac (Alan Mowbray) is the greedy Minister of Finance to Louis XV (Reginald Owen). Because Voltaire (George Arliss) writes tracts denouncing his heavy taxes, the Count tries to bring him into disfavor with the King- unsuccessfully because the King enjoys Voltaire's conversation and Mme Pompadour (Doris Kenyon) finds him entertaining...
Based partly upon the case of a Huguenot. Jean Galas, who was executed for murder in Toulouse and partly upon the case of an army officer who was beheaded for treason. Voltaire does not adhere to history at the expense of drama. George Arliss, who likes to be a kind, romantic, dignified old gentleman, makes Voltaire more whimsical than embittered but he gives a dextrously intelligent performance...
This is a dissertation on Mr. George Arliss. Several years ago George Jean Nathan said a last word, almost an epitaph, over Mr. George Arliss. Nathan had just seen the celebrated actor in a famous part, and he jotted for his journal the simple comment that Mr. George Arliss splendidly portrayed Hamlet as Mr. George Arliss. That is all that need be said of "The Working Man" now playing at the University Theatre. It is a typical Arliss play, about a self-made old gentleman who still holds his own in the world and proves to his worthy whippersnapper heir...