Word: courtleigh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Patriarch. William Courtleigh is disclosed as an aged mountaineer who acts as lawgiver for his entire region. When one of his sons slays another in a fit of sexual rage, the hoary solon is faithful to the credo of the crags and becomes the boy's executioner. While it provokes thought, is often sensitively acted, this earnest incident has perhaps been regarded too literally, fails to achieve dramatic impact...
Julius Caesar. Every year the Players' Club presents a classical drama for a short run. This year, during last week only, it was Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, with incidental music by Charles L. Safford. The confusion of brilliance in the cast resulted from William Courtleigh (Caesar), James Rennie (Antony), Basil Rathbone (Cassius), Tyrone Power (Brutus), Mary Young (Portia), Homer Croy (Mob), Bruce Bairnsfather...
...drinking companion of Falstaff and his band of blustering pickpockets. When civil war breaks out, Hal puts off his dissipation and kills Hotspur on the field of battle. Hal was played, intermittently well, by Basil Sydney, and Hotspur, for about the same values, by Philip Merivale. Peggy Wood, William Courtleigh, Blanche Ring, Rosamond Pinchot (as Prince John) were among the notables...
...most determined modernists of our spectators to shake their heads a trifle sadly and note that, although ideas, mechanisms, money have done much for our stage, they cannot replace John Drew. Laurette Taylor's startling genius gave the breath and brilliancy of life to the name role. William Courtleigh, O. P. Heggie, Violet Heming, Ernest Lawford contented themselves with perfecting the background of small parts. Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's cordial comedy of life behind the scenes of a small English playhouse never was better played. All in all a rare week. Spooks is a mystery play. Borrowing...
...Emery played the lover with snatches of success and patches of poverty. The same inconsistency of performance marred the husband in the hands of William Courtleigh, Kathlene Macdonnell made of the lady all that a playwright could expect...