Word: blinn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Edwin Crane Wilbur, play-wright-actor, who co-starred with once-famed Cinemactress Pearl White in The Perils of Pauline; and Beatrice Edna Blinn, actress-niece of Actor Holbrook Blinn; in London. Actress Blinn is Actor Wilbur's third wife. His second, Suzanne Caubet, a niece of the late Sarah Bernhardt, divorced...
Died. Holbrook Blinn, 56, famed actor (Salvation Nell, The Bad Man, The Play's The Thing), son of Nellie Holbrook, actress and Republican campaign stump speaker; of blood poisoning; at Croton-on-Hudson...
...This Woman Business" at the Copley aids and abets Holbrook Blinn's current dramatic heresy. Like "The Play's the Thing", it has a cast of six or seven men and one woman, in open defiance of all the best books of dramatic technique--by ladies who have written pageants for the Cope Valley Community Players--which claim that the female must appear in strength numerical as well as sexual. Walking in beauty from out the wings is supposed to add that intangible repondez s'il vous plait without which no galleries will be filled. We all know now what...
Unlike Jane Cowl, who recently expressed astonishment at the slashing of lines from "The Road to Rome" by the Boston vigilantes, Holbrook Blinn was mildly surprised last evening, as he chatted in his dressing room with a CRIMSON interviewer, that the script of "The Plays the Thing" had not suffered a similar fate...
...They haven't touched a word of it," declared Mr. Blinn, "and what is more, a minister came up to me the other day and said that he saw or heard nothing wrong in the play. Many people have thought that the play was a little risque, but with the recommendation of a minister behind it, even Boston cannot make a fuss...