Word: artful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Before an audience which completely filled the Living Room of the Union, Mr. H. B. Irving delivered an address last evening on "The Art and Status of the Actor...
There are always occurring sporadic outbreaks against the actor and his art, said Mr. Irving, not unlike the old-fashioned Puritanism, which has been happily termed a "form of barbarism." Such attacks, it is easy to see, result more from the peculiarity of the art itself than from any fundamental reason. The actor does not heed them. That he is merely an exponent of mimicry, requiring no special training, is a monstrous fallacy. The true actor's task is rather to reproduce man in idealized form. This is as imperative to art in drama as it is to art...
...Irving M.A., who has been playing in repertoire during the past week at the Colonial Theatre, Boston, will give an address on "The Art and Status of the Actor" in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock...
...Irving is a graduate of New College, Oxford, and a member of the English Bar, Inner Temple. Though a young man he has already reached distinction in the art of his father. He first made a name for himself as Mr. Crichton in "The Admirable Crichton." Two years ago he achieved a noteworthy success as Hamlet at the Adelphi Theatre in London. In the plays which Mr. Irving has given during his last engagement in Boston he showed his great width of range and mastery of his art. Contrary to the popular opinion Mr. Irving is in many ways unlike...
...Irving, who has been playing in repertoire during the week at the Colonial Theatre, will give an address on "The Art and Status of the Actor" in the Living Room of the Union next Monday evening at 8 o'clock...