Word: dressier
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fact, apply to the play better if it were not a quotation. Author Caroline Francke is writing, not about the vengeance of romantic deities upon heroes, but about tiny people and their puny, terrible grief. So honestly does she do this and so honestly, if not brilliantly, do Eric Dressier and Ruth Easton, as well as the minor members of the cast, interpret her observations that the sorrows of small characters assume their true enormity and depth. There are moments of murmur about wage-slaves and capitalists which injure but do not destroy the sometimes strained, but plausible and exciting...
Marion Davies, who has taken off weight, plays the part of Patsy. She is abused by her sister and her mother (Marie Dressier with a face that could stop a thousand asparagus tips). She moons for a rising young realtor, but is made to stay at home and wash the dishes while her sister goes out with him. Later, the realtor tells Patsy that she must cultivate Personality; so she gets a set of books which enable her to amaze her family with such casual remarks...
...Callahans and the Murphys, saints be praised, are all of the same race. In the best tradition, Mrs. Murphy squabbles incessantly over the back fence with Mrs. Callahan. This is comical because their four children are inter-engaged and likely to be unapprised of the latest diplomatic conditions. Marie Dressier, who is said to contemplate retirement, acts Mrs. Callahan with Éclat...
Helen Gahagan, Hollo Peters, Eric Dressier, Mrs. Whiffen's matronly daughter, Peggy. This, the highest paid assemblage ever seen on one legitimate stage, enacts for the fourth time in the U. S. (the first, 1898) the fortunes of those shockingly Bohemian actors and actresses who strutted in famed Sadler's "Wells" during the reign of good Queen Victoria. To the zip-gobbling audiences of this day, the play offers mellow humor and pathos-qualities whose commercial values are doubtful. To the student of the theatre, to the lover of stage personalities, it is irresistable. Dramatist Pinero in Trelawny...
...fair echo no less. Young Blood. You would think, would you not? that plays about the younger generation were about over with. But they are not. Here are such a shrewd and forward-looking a dramatist as James Forbes and such excellent performers as Helen Hayes, Norman Trevor, Eric Dressier and Florence Eldridge going over the whole thing again...