Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Mr. Clive had finished, Mr. De Wolf Hopper, veteran of light opera fame, took the platform and with booming voice that filled every corner of the room, spent an hour recounting amusing incidents of his long and varied career...
...hear many people tell you that the glamor of the stage wears off quickly, but I have not found it so," De Wolf Hopper, whose career as a comic actor dates back to the last quarter of the nineteenth century, yesterday told a CRIMSON reporter...
Although Mr. Hopper does not regret his career as a comedian, he admits that most humorous actors have a longing to appear in tragic roles. Mr. Hopper told the reporter that he had started as a tragical actor, but that his voice drew him into the musical field. "I have sometimes nurtured an ambition to make my audience weep, and of all the roles I have played on the stage, my favorite is that of Jack Point in Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Yeoman of the Guard', a strolling jester who dies of a broken heart. I revel in that little...
Circus performer, law student, teacher, actor and director, Evreinov is a figure of great versatility and ability. In a career of varied interests and activities, he has attained a position among the greatest writers, directors and actors in Russia...
...Barrymore's memoirs were neither rowdy nor pornographic, but the measured attempt of an intelligent man to comment cool-mindedly upon his own career. None of the fustian sentiment, like the smell of an old stage wardrobe-none of the gasconnading, the pomposities, the how-well-I-remember-the-night that clutter most actors' reminiscences-nor yet the blatancy that distinguishes those of certain editors-were discoverable in the suave, faintly amused memories of John Barrymore...