Word: closser
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WHEN prize fighters, prelates and profiteers parade their talent on the fields of contemporary literature one is not surprised to find an actress attempting the same. Louise Closser Hale contends that people of the stage have thoughts worth printing in other than press notices. And perhaps she is right. But the stage does not, after all, furnish quite the proper training for the writing of delightful and interesting fiction. Yet, as she admits, this is really with her a mere avocation--so one dare not condemn her completely...
Harvest. This rather sombre drama of the farm country was saved chiefly by authenticity of atmosphere and two exceptionally competent performances. Louise Closser Hale, one of the best of our grey-haired actresses, played the farm mother, and Augustin Duncan, her suspendered husband, was as close to perfection as the author could have hoped...
...Chrystal Herne to roam at large as the girl from home, handling sentiment with veracity and putting the color of conviction upon the butterfly who bursts from her homespun cocoon. Miss Crothers, moreover, does not allow her to sacrifice a career on the alter of Willie's toothpaste. Louise Closser Hale (oldfashioned mother), Merle Maddern (vampire), Alan Brooks (artist) and Richard Sterling (Willie) are others who are sufficient unto their parts. The producers?Equity Players...
...with one of those casts which could take turns reading selections from the Social Register and provide exciting entertainment for all. Charles Cherry is the over-bearing husband who is finally overborne. Violet Kemble Cooper lives and breathes the wise and witty wife; Joan Maclean flaps most agreeably. Louise Closser Hale is pungently amusing as the septuagenarian grandmother who has lived her extended lifetime exclusively in the company of ladies and gentlemen, and is getting rather tired of them...