Word: chekhovisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contracts and travels around Europe playing guest engagements at capital cities. He wears loose ties and velvet jackets, keeps pets, plays all his roles with a facile and sonorous emotionalism which does not seem to have its source in the ideas of his authors. He has played Shaw, Hauptmann, Chekhov, Pirandello, Shakespeare Euripides. When he played Redemption in Manhattan (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928) Commentator Alexander Woollcott called his voice "the most extraordinary ever heard in the theatre" and Robert Littell said of his acting: "It is a gorgeous bag of tricks . . . it is not a performance...