Word: ben
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philip Hale, in reviewing for the Boston Herald, Ben Ami's performance in "Samson and Delilah" at the Wilbur, regrets that Ben-Ami did not have a better play. He complains of the theatricalness of many of the scenes and of the general lack of skill in the treatment of the theme. Most of his criticism is true enough; yet We felt at the time and do now that Ben-Ami would have had trouble to have found another vehicle so admirably suited to his talents in many respects as is this work Sven Lange...
...Delilah he found such a play, from curtain rise to curtain fall it is imbued with the spirit of the Slav. In its frequent, terribly effective appeals to the stage; in its lack of sentiment and its slow, careful development of the plot, it is distinctly the vehicle for Ben...
...Ben-Ami was all that he has been reputed to be somewhat crude still but tremendously effective and appealing to the sympathies. His face is remarkably capable of expression. It has been long since we have seen an sector with so expressive a month. Although his outburst at the end of the second act, when he assails the lover of his wife, is magnificently powerful and his reaction equally affecting. It is in the quieter scenes that Ben-Ami's talents are at their best. The opening tete-a-tete with his wife and the scene at the beginning...
Just to demonstrate to the visiting cast that they were playing in Boston, the audience received the more serious parts of play with true Bostonian Litters. And when Ben-Ami ended by shooting himself through the stomach he was rewarded by generous guffaws...
...Wilbur Theatre next week, Arthur Hopkins will present the famous Ben-Ami in "Samson and Delilah". The engagement is limited to two weeks...