Word: cravens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curtain speech Monday night, Mr. Craven said that he had returned from his scheduled retirement to play the part of the young son, because of the sickness of the actor assigned to the part, and the lack of a capable understudy. But the role he has created in Mr. Thomas Watson Jr. could only suffer in the hands of some other player. The part of the grouchy old father is played in the manner of the best crabs by Mr. Robert McWade. Miss Blyth Daly, as Geraldine Marsh, the orphaned friend of the family turned housekeeper, entirely satisfactory...
...Craven is very much pleased with himself for the way he has shown up the "father and son" activities of the Y. M. C. A. and the Rotary Clubs. He is so delighted that once in a while he gloats over it in a long speech. But the clever gag that is almost sure to come is worth waiting...
...Frank Craven in "New Brooms", opening this week at the New Park Theatre, has written a very good comedy. The star of "The First Year" in his new play shows what happens when a grouchy old father hands over the reins of his business for one year to his son, whose ambition is to make himself agreeable to everybody including oil stock salesmen, union laborers, and domestic servants...
Role Cut to Mr. Craven's Pattern...
...Streeter was scheduled to prolong it, Meade Minnigerode to extend it, Dorothy Parker to persist to the end of her chapter. Eventually the following will all have had a turn: Harry C. Witwer, Sophie Kerr, Robert G. Anderson, Kermit Roosevelt, Bernice Brown, Wallace Irwin, Frank Craven, George B. McCutcheon, Rube Goldberg, George A. Chamberlain, John V. A. Weaver, Gerald Mygatt, George P. Putnam...