Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advice to the college actor going on the professional stage is the same as I would give to any actor," says Richard B. Harrison, "de Lawd" of "The Green Pastures." "Play your part well. You have a debt to your audience. If you wish of permanent popularity, give the best in you. Rehearse your lines continually and you will never get state. Every show should be a perfect show and every night should be a first night. The Bachelor of Arts will find his degree no hindrance. Merit is the prime basis of ultimate success in the theatre...
...Harrison practices what he preaches. For an hour before the curtain goes up he sits alone in his dressing room and reviews his script to recapture the spirit of his lines. Once on stage he never gives a second-race performance, because his part has such stature that it groups him and brigs out the best talent that he possesses...
...part restricts as off stage," Harrison continued. "The public expects me to uphold its dignity, so I can't do many things I might otherwise. For instance, I was invited to a Cambridge dance recently. Could the Lord go to dances? I think dancing is a very pleasant means of entertainment, but not for Richard B. Harrison...
...attributes the success of "The Green Pastures" to the moral influence, the human appeal, and the high quality of the directing and acting. "I am no playwright," Richard Harrison concluded, "but I can tell a good play, when I see it, and I have seen many plays ruined by inadequate acting. No play is foolproof all the way through, or actor proof...
After the luncheon Harrison will talk in the Common Room on "The Lord at 68 Looks Back". He probably has the most remarkable entrance "cue" in all stage history,--"Gangway! Gangway! For the Lord God Jehovah!" This charming actor made his stage debut only two years ago, when Marc Connelly discovered him giving drama readings on Chautauqua programs and in churches. His talk will be open to interested members of the University. The Club hopes to have other prominent actors speak to it at luncheons during the coming year...