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...your issue for March 4, you say, "Walter Hampden, whose heart is on nobler things, offered Rostand's sentimental hero to the sentimental U. S. Public." Allow me to say that there is no nobler thing than Cyrano. WM. LYON PHELPS...
Nazimova mastered English and a year later appeared in an Ibsen repertory that immediately won her a place among the stars. She played opposite Walter Hampden in his U. S. debut (The Comtesse Coquette) in 1907. Followed several years of triumph in the U. S. and on the Continent. Then cinema claimed her, then vaudeville. Miss Le Gallienne persuaded her last year to join the cast for The Cherry Orchard and she bloomed again, unfaded...
...Dean Hampden is the only actor-manager, in the sense of the term as it was applied to such as Edwin Booth and Richard Mansfield, in the U. S. today. He is the financial and artistic force "behind every play shown in the Walter Hampden Theatre on upper Broadway. A beardless patriarch, aged only 48, he follows his profession with perhaps sterner self-discipline but with more self-consciousness than his brothers, Paul, John, and Malcolm, have developed in following their respective professions of painting, law and literature...
...Hampden is the Dean's middle name. His family name is Dougherty, the "Dockerties" of Brooklyn. The first boards he trod were in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, where he was a gangling "Shylock" in itchy whiskers at the age of 16. He had a year at Harvard and another year, to experiment with his bass-baritone voice and a certain flair for the cello, in Paris...
Favorite actor: Hampden, 38; John Barrymore, 12; Rogers...