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...Harvard week, or more appropriately Collier week, at the St. James. Given his first chance to display his real capabilities as an actor, this graduate of the Harvard Dramatic Club and the 47 Workshop was largely responsible for the success of "In the Next Room", the mystery thriller which the Boston Stock Company is putting on this week...
...Collier plays the dual role of Monsieur Armand, reputable French collector of antiques, and Colonel Piggott, head of the English detective bureau. He portrays both characters admirably, and his French, of the best Harvard variety, was intelligible, which is saying a good deal. It is safe to predict that he will be given more leading roles in the future...
...James players proved once more that they are at their best in melodrama. Mr. Collier was given first class support, particularly by Mr. Nedell, Mr. Richards, and Miss Blakeney. Mr. Richards paid the penalty of being known as a comedian, and the audience persisted in tittering in anticipation of the laughs that did not come...
Score, Harvard Seconds 0, Cambridge Latin 1. Goal, by Schoolnick. Referee, Mooney. Time, three 10-minute periods. SECONDS LATIN SCHOOL Pruyn, Whittall l.w. r.w. O'Connell, Harlow Durant, Collier c. c. Gibson, Gullian Peirson, Canning r.w. l.w. Joyce Righter, Bohlen l.d. r.d. Nelson Tilt, Dunkle r.d. l.d. Schoolnick Harding, Reid g. g. Fitzgerald
...Daily, "the quickest-witted man who ever wore grease-paint", who drank a quart of champagne and a quart of whiskey every evening in his dressing room; golden Lillian Russell who "broke 1,000 hearts a night" when she sang Rosie, you are my Posie; David Warfield, William Collier, Fay Templeton, De Wolf Hopper, Bessie McCoy, Frankie Bailey, Sam Bernard...