Word: berton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Revelry pokes with ruthless imagination into the secret misfortunes of a President of the U. S. whom theatre-goers found it easy to think of as Warren Gamaliel Harding. The audience sees President "Easy" Markham (Actor Berton Churchill) as a stately tool of politicians who run the nation from a poker table stuck away in a private nook known as "the crow's nest." Because of his unwholesome faith in these cronies, he allows the White House to degenerate into what one of the characters described as an automat ("Because when you want to take something out, you just...
...Deacon. A benign and silver haired old sinner has been made the hero of this play. As played to perfection by Berton Churchill he will unquestionably be much loved of the masses. You understand, of course, he is not really and forever wicked...
...poorly construct- ed, for the curtain comes down at the end of a first act provoking interest by its lack of dramatic climax. The second and third acts hold the attention remarkably. The suave scheming deacon, a lovable hypocrite and generous to a fault, is pivot; and Mr. Berton Churchill acts his sanctimonious role to perfection, while with nimble wit and deft fingers he wins himself, the girl, the hobo, and the proprietress out of dangerous holes. Then there are the villains, well drawn, better acted, and best cast, and the local characters highly indigenous and the comic prize fighter...
...REAL SARAH BERNHARDT WHOM HER AUDIENCES NEVER KNEW-Mme. Pierre Berton-Boni & Liveright ($3.50). This absorbing biography of an absorbing personality contains much dramatic material which Sarah purposely omitted from her memoirs. It is a frank and intimate picture of a woman of undoubted genius. And while its author is obviously an ardent admirer, she was also too close a friend not to recognize the many weaknesses, eccentricities and faults that go hand in hand with genius; these she has faithfully recounted. The London Times ranks this biography as "fit to stand, if not beside at least in the shadow...