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DISRAELI (George Arliss)-Epigramo-phone record of the purchase of the Suez Canal...
...appeared in 325 plays, directing 33 of them. He was leading man for Mme. Modjeska (see p. 44), once supported Edwin Booth. His daughter, Cornelia Otis Skinner, is a famed monologist. One of Actor Skinner's chief rivals in the impersonation of old men is his friend George Arliss (see p. 69). Famed Skinner roles: Richelieu, The Harvester, The Honor of the Family, Kismet...
...Dream. After trooping with tent shows of Uncle Tom's Cabin, in which she played -'Little Eva," in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, she reached Manhattan in 1911, was given a small part in Jumping Jupiter, later toured with Julian Eltinge in The Crinoline Girl, with George Arliss in Disraeli (see p. 69). Meteoric was her success as Harlot Sadie Thompson in Somerset Maugham's Rain (1922). Although she missed but 15 performances in Rain's run of some five years, in her last play, Her Cardboard Lover, her performance became dilatory, then apperiodic, then sporadic. Failing...
...into a picture as exciting as a detective story. This is odd but it is odder still that, although Louis Parker's old play is no more than effective theatrical plum pudding, it should seem at times almost literary. Both of these facts are principally due to George Arliss, who has played Disraeli so often on the stage that if set back 60 years he could probably double for him in the House of Commons. He gets across the complicated plot, making you believe in the crafty little minister who loved peacocks, gardening, and Queen Victoria, and whose servants...
...George Arliss, British actor, complete with dangling monocle, baggy tweeds, traveling tea basket, parrot ("Dink"), and the world's most monumental valet (George Jenner), entrained last week in Manhattan for Hollywood, where he will make for Warner Bros, talking pictures of his two great stage successes, The Green Goddess and Disraeli. Actor Arliss had just completed a five-month transcontinental tour as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (TIME, March...