Word: arliss
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...considered the progenitor of the Renaissance in modern drama, no play of his can be passed lightly by. Rosmersholm has sometimes been thought his greatest. Almost everyone had given it attention on the printed page, but very few had ever seen it acted. Mrs. Fiske, John Mason and George Arliss did it once long...
Failing to obtain George Arliss or Godfrey Tearle for Caesar, the Guild chose Lionel Atwill. His magnificent presence enhanced the role's potentialities; his heavy humor and his cloudy diction deadened them. Helen Hayes, though very lovely and expert, was occasionally caught in her inexhaustible supply of cuteness. Helen Westley, veteran of many a Guild production, seemed to lack entirely the sinister severity of Ftatateeta. The best performance was contributed by Henry Travers as Britannus. The production was magnificent and the new theatre certainly the finest, the most comfortable and the most beautiful in Manhattan...
...ENGLISH-A wabbly play of Galsworthy's shored up into sound entertainment by the extraordinary performance of George Arliss...
...ENGLISH−George Arliss magnificently aged in a secondary play by Galsworthy about an old three-bottle English gentleman...
...ENGLISH?George Arliss as a magnificent old man in a not intensely entertaining play by Galsworthy...