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...rumor flies that Elsie Ferguson will appear with Sidney Blackmer in a play from the Hungarian by Zoe Akins, to be directed by David Burton, who did so magnificently with The Swan...
...cinema (TIME,Oct. 8); finally a moderately entertaining example of the cloak and sword in drama. An illegitimate child, a revolutionist, a wandering mountebank, finally "the most powerful man in Paris" during the Revolution; thus the fortunes of Scaramouche unfold. Unfortunately the quiet talents of that excellent actor Sidney Blackmer fit wretchedly the heroic velvet and sash of the hero. When fiery flame is needed he only smoulders pleasantly. Otherwise the cast and the production are considerably better than the arrant melodrama deserves...
...three Yale debaters will be E. L. Richards, S. H. Blackmer, affirmative, and Walter Harris negative...
Scaramouche. Rafael Sabatini has made a melodrama from his picturesque novel. Sydney Blackmer and J. M. Kerrigan will figure prominently...
...make a dozen Broadway successes. But what one actor has a chance to shine pre-eminently in such a congeries of stars: Maclyn Arbuckle, McKay Morris, Francis Wilson, J. M. Kerrigan, John Craig, Violet Heming, Eva Le Galliene, Vivian Tobin! The only weakness in the cast is Sidney Blackmer as Captain Absolute?too modest at his intrigue. Magnificent acting, to be sure, but more than that?Sheridan. For Value Received, as might be expected from its title, deals with the familiar woman who pays for what is generally referred to in such drama as "breaking the rules...